Hard Disk Performance (trouble) on Slack 12.1

The One · 06-02-2008, 10:13 PM

Hi guys,

- I`m using Slack 12.1 with Kernel 2.6.24-5, When the system start, the Drives (SATA II) Is not more like Scsi devices (like as slack 12.0) now this one reconize on /dev/hd(x). I`m using Gigabyte G31 (intel) motherboard, and 3 HD's SATA II 3Gbp/s 32MB Cache, and I was spent 6Hours to copy 65GB between disks, I really don’t know what happen, The system recognize IDE SATA device like below:
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
And I have NO ISA slots on my board… so stranger..! Anyway, I be right.. I have some trouble on mine SATA disk controller, is impossible I spent much time to do a copy between Drives in the same System.
My Hardware:
Intel Core2Quad
Gigabyte G31 - Motherboard
4GB RAM 800Mhz
2 Hard Disk 500GB SATA II Seagate
Installation (Full) with out X or KDE, this is a Server (Shell Console only).
Thanks for help me, and for forgive my terrible English.! 
One.

T3slider · 06-02-2008, 10:30 PM

Please read the documentation that came with your Slackware install, especially the CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT and UPGRADE.TXT files.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT

If you notice extremely long wait times when formatting partitions in the
installer, and you're installing on a Thinkpad that has a SATA drive, it's
possible that the wrong driver is being used, which disables DMA on the drive
(and could happen on other machines). A bit more detail about it is here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Proble...stem_hard_disk
Try passing "hda=noprobe" to the kernel when booting the installer, and it
should use the correct libata driver.

You need to pass "hda=noprobe" to the kernel when booting. For a more permanent solution, add an 'append="hda=noprobe"' line to your kernel stanza in /etc/lilo.conf and issue `lilo` as root to write the changes to the MBR.

The One · 06-03-2008, 09:07 PM

Hey dude, Thanks for help.. But I still with this problem:

- Like all of you can see, I’m newbie in Linux, anyway I will try to be a good student.! I can promise.!
Well, I Have a IDE Driver like mine /hda where the Linux (root) / and others partitions are installed, and I have 2 mount points called (/dados) and (/backup), this is a mount point of mines (SATA II 500 GB drivers).
When I’ve installed Slack 12.1 with Kernel 2.6.25-4 Mines SATA Disk are so slowly, and when I put another (IDE Drive) with Slack 12.0 Kernel 2.6.21-5-smp The SATA disks starts run perfectly.
Here you are Mines information with Slack 12.0 Knl 2.6.21x
Linux darkstar 2.6.21.5-smp #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 43256112 3279760 37779064 8% /
/dev/hda5 19228276 176316 18075212 1% /home
/dev/hda6 9629880 172412 8968292 2% /var
/dev/sda 480721640 100329244 355973068 22% /dados
I waiting for more help, and some tricks to get a NICE system on my Little Server…!

Thanks for all.
One,