Bug#270199: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: Poor ATA I/O performance
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:01:13AM +0800, John wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> >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?
>
> My original report shows I could not. See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270199
>
>
> >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.
> >
>
> If you read the full transcript you will see that I use the PIIX4 driver
> which, I believe, is correct for this chipset.
Thanks for the clarification.
--
Horms
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