I just finished installing Slackware 9.1 on my computer. The current problem I am having is that when I try to transfer data from hda( my main drive ) to any one of my other drives it goes at 2-3 meg/sec max, and should be going faster than that because its a Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM drive. Here are the hdparm -tT results and the dmesg outputs from my system.
HDPARM
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.47 seconds =272.34 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds = 39.75 MB/sec
DMESG
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.3) #6 Tue Sep 2 17:43:01 PDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126960 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2083.159 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4154.98 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515360k/524224k available (1813k kernel code, 8472k reserved, 614k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: CLK_CTL MSR was 6003d223. Reprogramming to 2003d223
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4d0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3177] at 00:11.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe080d000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=84
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:574e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:5:5, shift=0:10:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PDC20268: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0a.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:10.2
PDC20268: chipset revision 1
PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hde

io, hdf

io
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdg

io, hdh

io
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hda

MA, hdb

MA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdc

MA, hdd

io
hda: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03a9ebc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0, ATA DISK drive
hdf: WDC WD1000BB-00CCB0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03aa628, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03aa764, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: WDC WD1000BB-32CCB0, ATA DISK drive
hdh: WDC WD1000BB-00CCB0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03aaa7c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03aabb8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xa800-0xa807,0xac02 on irq 10
ide3 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xb402 on irq 10
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: attached ide-disk driver.
hdf: host protected area => 1
hdf: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area => 1
hdg: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdh: attached ide-disk driver.
hdh: host protected area => 1
hdh: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: hdb1
hde: hde1
hdf: [PTBL] [12161/255/63] hdf1
hdg: [PTBL] [12161/255/63] hdg1
hdh: [PTBL] [12161/255/63] hdh1
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 2986.800 MB/sec
32regs : 1710.000 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 3541.200 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 4877.600 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 6224.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3541.200 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
Adding Swap: 498004k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset
agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:12.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:10.0
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xcc00, 00:50:2c:06:92:3c, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 41e1.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 41e1.
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:10.3
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: irq 5, pci mem e0b7c000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: 00:10.3 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (32 bytes) by BIOS/FW.
PCI: 00:10.3 cache line size too large - expecting 16.
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:12.0
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbc00, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:10.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 00:09.0
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc000, IRQ 12
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:10.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0a.0
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc400, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:10.2
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e4118000-e41187ff] Max Packet=[2048]
gameport0: Emu10k1 Gameport at 0xa400 size 8 speed 1242 kHz
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 00:10.1
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023c0020005504]
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1.1, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x1d) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1.2, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x1e) is not claimed by any active driver.
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6
usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
input0: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro on usb2:3.0
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
usb.c: registered new driver hid
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -32
input: USB HID v1.10 Device [045e:001d] on usb2:3.1
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse® Explorer] on usb2:4.0
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1582 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
bridge-eth0: up
bridge-eth0: attached
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1600 (vmnet-natd)
/dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1871 (vmnet-netifup)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1885 (vmnet-dhcpd)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.7.6 [Mar 5 2004] on minor 0
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected a Via Apollo KT400 chipset in AGP v2 compat mode at 00:00.0
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo KT400 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000a0b (hardware caps of chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv3 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv3
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device.
[fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000302 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] max AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] free LFB = 100663296
[fglrx] max LFB = 100663296
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 16384
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)