Re: VIA IDE performance under 2.6.0-test7/8?

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 09:53:47 EST


On Tuesday 21 of October 2003 16:37, James Finnie wrote:
> Hi guys;
>
> Am having trouble getting decent IDE performance from the 2.6.0-test8
> kernel (tested with 2.6.0-test7 kernel also, same issue). The platform is
> VIA EPIA-ME6000 - with a VIA VT8235 southbridge. Under 2.4.21 I get around
> 40Mb/s in hdparm -t and 70Mb/s for hdparm -T. Under the 2.6.0-test7/8 I
> only manage 13Mb/s & 52Mb/s respectively! I've attached my .config, and
> the output of /proc/ide/via, dmesg, and hdparm info. I don't think I'm
> doing anything particularly stupid here, but if I am, hit me with a wet
> fish please :)

Does 'hdparm -a 512 /dev/hd?' help?
--bartlomiej

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