Message-ID: <3A2BDCAE.FD48D7D6@compro.net> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:04:30 -0500 From: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] slow IDE + no DMA on SuSE 7, Asus K7V with VIA chips Brett Delmage wrote:
I noticed some SuSE people's comments in the IDE driver code for VIA / AMD chipsets in the IDE driver code that I am using. I'm hoping this is a good place to start asking questions. I've already used google with no obvious results other than similar inquiries.
I just installed SuSE 7 on my Athlon K7V (700 MHz), previously running RH 6.1. The IDE drive (Maxtor 7200 UDMA 66) drive performance is slow. My P2 233 laptop has 2 times faster disk transfers :-(
Have you tried any of the following? hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hda or even better hdparm -c1 -d1 /-X66 dev/hda Be warned the -X66 does cause problems with some drives... -- Mark Hounschell markh@compro.net