Bug#270199: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: Poor ATA I/O performance

To: John <summer@computerdatasafe.com.au>, 270199@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#270199: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: Poor ATA I/O performance
From: Horms <horms@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:34:52 +0900
Message-id: <[🔎] 20040910023450.GF14554@verge.net.au>
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On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:33:13PM +0800, John wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686
> Version: 2.4.26-2
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> I've just filed a bug report against 2.6 for this same system; 2.6 does
> not work on this system, so I have no workaround.

Two questions.

1. Did you turn DMA on?
2. Are you using the apprioriate driver for your IDE chipset?
   If you use the generic IDE driver generally things are very slow.
   Ditto for DMA being off.

-- 
Horms

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