Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:59:24PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> I'm puzzled. A few days ago I installed a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB
> hard drive on my system, replacing a fairly old 1 gig drive. I installed it
> as slave to my existing 8 gig drive, which holds Debian. I intended to use
> it for data (video files, etc.). I created a swap partition (128 MB) and a
> 20 gig ext2 partition, leaving the rest of the drive unused for later.
>
> Since booting with this setup, my system has been dramatically *slower* than
> before, particularly when reading from and/or writing to the new drive.
> Even things that I wouldn't expect to depend on drive speed, like redrawing
> of graphical elements in X, are something like four times slower than
> before.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion on why this would happen? Or where I can find
> more information?
You probably are aware of this but if not, you might need to enable DMA
manually for the disk. This can be done with the hdparm program.
hdparm -d1
to enable DMA
hdparm -d1X69
to enable UDMA mode 5
and so on.
Hope that helps,
Bijan
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