Re: Abysmal PATA IDE performance

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>Probably your drives are renamed.
>>Before you had (wild guess, look at your boot log messages):
>>- ata bus -> hdc,hdd
>>- sata -> sda (if you really have any sata bus...)
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>>Now all hdX become sdX, and PATA is detected _before_ SATA, so you names
>>probaly became:
>>- ata via libata -> sda (HD), sr0 (CDROM)
>>- sata -> sdb.
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>on fedora this doesn't matter (due to mount-by-label)
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>the bigger problem I suspect is that the sata modules aren't part of the
>initrd!
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>you can force the issue by adding
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>alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
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>to the /etc/modprobe.conf file, and then recreating the initrd
>(see the mkinitrd tool, or just install the kernel rpm)
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Thanks all.

Arjan, using combined_mode=libata and making a new ramdisk increased my 
xfer rate from 1.xx mb/sec to 28.xx mb/sec.

I am curious as to why my friends dell inspiron 8200 with a 1.8ghz p4 
and the same drive using the same drive with FC6 and the standard ide 
module gets 44 to 45 mb/sec.

Steve

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