slow hard disk

[Christophe Le Guern]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:07:24 -0500
Benjamin Biron <benbiron at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Has it been like this since the first time you booted fedora?
no, I was (on another -old- computer) on fedora test3
The system was very slow because the motherboard cannot do UDMA66
and I put the limit cylinder jumper to (33Go limit)

so I have a new computer who have this capability,
but no chance, it seems a hard drive issue

> I improperly powered off a couple days ago and when I rebooted in 
> fedora, everything was extremely slow and it was apparent the hardrive 
> was the bottleneck (Opening mozilla made the HD churn for around 1 
> minute on a dual MP 1800 with 1 gig of ram). I tried a bunch of things 
> to solve it and gave up. I was so frustrated with the time it took to 
> boot I just powered off during boot. When I powered back on, everything 
> magically came back to normal.
> 
> Btw, I'm not necessarily suggesting you do this, I'm just stating that I 
> too observed odd behavior relating to HD performance. Just for the 
> record, I have 1 Western Digital (120 Gig) drive and 1 IBM Deskstar (80 
> Gig) drive. Also, I had odd performance problems with the Western 
> Digital in anything other than cable select. Maybe you could try to put 
> your drive in cable select?
> 
> Good luck and sorry I can't be of more help.
thanks for response :o)

> 
> ben
> 
> Christophe Le Guern wrote:
> 
> >hi all,
> >
> >I have a fresh install of fedora cora 1.
> >Unfortunally, the system is very slow.
> >I have play with hdparm options ( google search for my HD) without success
> >
> >if someone have the solution, I'm very interested.
> >
> >christophe
> >
> ># /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hdb
> >
> >/dev/hdb:
> >
> > Model=Maxtor 54098U8, FwRev=DA6207V0, SerialNo=K80CP4FC
> > Config={ Fixed }
> > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
> > BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> > CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80041248
> > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> > PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> > DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
> > AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
> > Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17:
> >
> ># /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdb
> >
> >/dev/hdb:
> > multcount    = 16 (on)
> > IO_support   =  3 (32-bit w/sync)
> > unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
> > using_dma    =  1 (on)
> > keepsettings =  0 (off)
> > readonly     =  0 (off)
> > readahead    =  8 (on)
> > geometry     = 4982/255/63, sectors = 80041248, start = 0
> >
> >
> ># /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
> >
> >/dev/hdb:
> > Timing buffer-cache reads:   576 MB in  2.00 seconds = 288.00 MB/sec
> > Timing buffered disk reads:    2 MB in 14.46 seconds = 141.63 kB/sec
> >
> >
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