A lot of thanks to Gautam and Manuel
although, there are some strange outputs (see below), performance is now
as usaual :-)
hdparm -Tt /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 2860 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1429.91 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate
ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 112 MB in 3.01 seconds = 37.18 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate
ioctl for device
Manuel Pelayo wrote:
Le dimanche 02 octobre 2005 à 13:13 +0200, Michael Nischt a écrit :
>I've got the same problem, the harddisk in my dell notebook (precision
>M70) extremly slowed down since the kernel update to 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 -
>it became absolutly impossible to work on this computer:
>
>/dev/hda:
> Timing cached reads: 2784 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1391.91 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 6 MB in 3.03 seconds = 1.98 MB/sec
>
>Furthermore, I noticed that the harddrive formerly was /dev/sda1 and now
>is /dev/hda1, which is probably the reason but I don't know how to fix
>this. I hope there is an easy way, because I'm not that familiar with
>linux to go into compiling the kernel.
>
>
I've same problem too.
My notebook is a IBM Thinkpad T43.
I've solve this when I add 'ide0=noprobe' in the kernel line of
the /etc/grub.conf file. Here is the diff :
--- grub.conf.old 2005-10-02 16:41:55.000000000 +0200
+++ grub.conf 2005-10-02 17:17:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
password --md5 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
- kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=0x303 rhgb
quiet
+ kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=0x303
ide0=noprobe rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1456_FC4)
root (hd0,0)