Re: hdparm

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

Hi,

On Mit, 21 Dez 2005, faz faz wrote:

> I have an acer travelmate 800lci with sarge installed, and i want to know if
> my ide hdd settings are right..
> the problem is that when i watch some divx the stream hangs sometimes and
> the audio too..
> i paste some info:

> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   1588 MB in  2.00 seconds = 795.54 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  4.05 seconds =   2.47 MB/sec
> 
> So, i don't really know why my hdd is so poorly performing..
> (i have kernel 2.6.14.4 suspend2 patch)

please post a "lspci -v" and is your kernel selfbuild? maybe your using the
wrong ide chipset?
are there any interessting boot messages? (/var/log/messages)
or have to tried the smartmontools ? a 'smartctl -a /dev/hda'

-- 
Florian Reitmeir