<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi,<br><br>Thanks for the response. <br><br>Under Ubuntu (NB the drive was under /dev/sdb under Ubuntu - is this a clue?!?):-<br><br> HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br> HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br><br>Under Centos (as /dev/hda):-<br><br>Both set to 0, so I tried to set them to 1. -d1 error as inappropriate but -u was allowed to be set. It didn't make much difference to the performance, i.e. up from ~ 2.5MB/Sec to 4MB/Sec.<br><br>as a refernence, -I gives...<br><br>ATA device, with non-removable media<br> Model Number: Maxtor
6E040L0 <br> Serial Number: E1L01XLE <br> Firmware Revision: NAR61590<br>Standards:<br> Used: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 <br> Supported: 7 6 5 4 <br>Configuration:<br> Logical max current<br> cylinders 16383 16383<br> heads 16 16<br> sectors/track 63 63<br> --<br> CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064<br>
LBA user addressable sectors: 78156288<br> device size with M = 1024*1024: 38162 MBytes<br> device size with M = 1000*1000: 40016 MBytes (40 GB)<br>Capabilities:<br> LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)<br> Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum<br> R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16<br> Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x00fe)<br> Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 0<br> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 <br> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns<br> PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 <br>
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns<br>Commands/features:<br> Enabled Supported:<br> * SMART feature set<br> Security Mode feature set<br> * Power Management feature set<br> * Write cache<br> * Look-ahead<br> * Host Protected Area feature set<br> * WRITE_VERIFY command<br> * WRITE_BUFFER command<br> * READ_BUFFER command<br> * NOP cmd<br>
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE<br> * Advanced Power Management feature set<br> SET_MAX security extension<br> Automatic Acoustic Management feature set<br> * Device Configuration Overlay feature set<br> * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE<br> * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT<br> * SMART error logging<br> * SMART self-test<br>Security: <br> Master password revision code = 65534<br> supported<br> not enabled<br> not locked<br>
frozen<br> not expired: security count<br> not supported: enhanced erase<br>HW reset results:<br> CBLID- above Vih<br> Device num = 0 determined by CSEL<br>Checksum: correct<br> <br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks,<br><br>Ian.<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alexander Georgiev <alexander.georgiev@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 8:57:17<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CentOS] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200
board<br></font><br>2009/8/11 Ian Murray <<a ymailto="mailto:murrayie@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:murrayie@yahoo.co.uk">murrayie@yahoo.co.uk</a>>:<br>> In my haste for help, I stupidly hit reply and changed the subject which I<br>> thought was enough for a new message, not giving much thought for the<br>> threading, etc. So apologies for the hijack, although I would think it<br>> fairly obvious that it wasn't deliberate or obvious to me... or a big deal<br>> really. My mail doesn't thread.<br>><br>> Some further info for those actually interested in helping, I forgot that<br>> the HD in question had an Ubuntu 8.10 install on it, so I fired that up and<br>> hdparm -t produced 56MB/Sec. So the issue is either kernel or config.<br><br>Check if ultradma and unmasq interrupts flags are set(both under<br>ubuntu and centos):<br><br>hdparm -u -d /dev/hda<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing
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