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Re: complete new install



On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:10:01AM +0100, Uwe wrote:
> 1) data-transfer from disk to disk seems to be very slo and cpu conduming. 
> copying huge files from USB-disk to IDE-disk ist very very slow with a load 
> of nearly 90%. It seems to be independent from the filesystemtype - it's the 
> same for FAT32 and NTFS sources.

Is DMA enabled for the disks?  If ide-generic is running the controler
instead of a native driver you don't get DMA which means all IO is slow
and uses a lot of cpu.

Check /proc/ide/ or if sata it should be enabled (unless you run sata in
old ide compatible mode).

Len Sorensen



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