Fedora Core 6 Test Update: kernel-2.6.22.1-15.fc6

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:41:23PM -0400, James Hubbard wrote:
 
 > Dell M65 laptop with no devices connected.
 > 
 > Using  2.6.20-1.2962, my hard drive shows up as sda with buffered disk
 > read of ~49MB/sec.  Under  the .22 kernel it shows up as hda and the
 > buffered read is < 2MB/sec.   (This cause the boot to be very slow.)

This is really odd.
I have the same laptop, and it consistently pulls 33MB/s under F7's .22
kernel, and from memory, it was the same result under F6's .20

I don't recall it ever getting near the speeds you mention.
Under F7 it's using ata_piix.  What driver is yours using,
and can you paste the output of hdparm -i for that device ?

	Dave

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