Slow Nforce2 ide chipset
 

My Nforce2 chipset on my Gigabyte K7 Triton GA-NFORCE2 Pro mother board has a really slo transfer rate even with hdparm configured with

hdparm -d 1 -c 1 -u 1 -X69 /dev/hda

The test reads back thus:

Read= 1300mb in 0.60sec = 600mbs
read-buffer = 64mb in 3.00sec

Can anyone elp to speed up the issue?
it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers :cool:

What distribution and what kernel are you using? You need to have amd74xx support (called "AMD and Nvidia chipset support" under IDE/ATA kernel configuration) either loaded as a module or compiled statically in the kernel.


Håkan

I am currently using mandrake 9.2 with kernel 2.4.26
the moduale is already built into the kernel.

This problem also occurs in Fedora Core 1 thats also with a 2.4.26 kernel

Sorry should have been more specific