Slow disk?

crashmeister · 09-20-2006, 06:57 AM

Hehe - I'll try to help you but I never built a kernel for a Pentium box.

Did you build the kernel with genkernel or by yourself?

Braveheart1980 · 09-20-2006, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crashmeister

Hehe - I'll try to help you but I never built a kernel for a Pentium box.

Did you build the kernel with genkernel or by yourself?

I build that myself

Here is my .config , if that help : http://rapidshare.de/files/33788787/config.html

crashmeister · 09-20-2006, 08:14 AM

Doesn't open - just send it to me by email.

Braveheart1980 · 09-20-2006, 05:39 PM

WoW!

You must be my personal savior angel!

It did work,and all thanks to your ata/atapi part of my .config

See for yourself

Code:

localhost anakin # hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  136 MB in  3.01 seconds =  45.16 MB/sec
localhost anakin # hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  148 MB in  3.01 seconds =  49.09 MB/sec
localhost anakin # hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  152 MB in  3.01 seconds =  50.58 MB/sec
localhost anakin # hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  146 MB in  3.03 seconds =  48.18 MB/sec
localhost anakin #

Many-many thanks again!

PS In case anyone else needs something like that,here the ata/atapi part of my .config that did the trick

Code:

#
# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5535 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT821X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
# CONFIG_IDE_ARM is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

carl0ski · 09-20-2006, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Braveheart1980

With the same settings :

I start to wonder if i should rebuild my kernel with something special for my mobo
Does anyone know where specifically should i try to find something like that in menucofig?

try
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

This reloads DMA on your HDD
does it speed it up?

PS i have in past found Cable select setting tends to cause problems with my HDD CDROM Combo

i have never used it since.