Vanja Hrustic spake the following on 3/23/2006 6:53 AM: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:44:09 -0500 > Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > >> Vanja Hrustic wrote: >>> I have installed CentOS 4.2, recently, on new computer. >>> >>> Everything seemed to work fine. >>> >>> However, we've found out that disk transfers are incredibly slow, >>> and I just can't figure out what to do in order to fix it. >>> >>> Computer is now running CentOS 4.3 (updated it 1 hour ago), and same >>> thing is still present. I hoped kernel upgrade might fix it, but it >>> didn't. >>> >> I am having similar issues with an Intel 845 based board. It sounds >> like your disks are running in PIO rather than in UDMA mode. > > Erm, if I'm not wrong, SATA uses DMA 'by default', it's not something > we can change. > > Thanks anyway :) > > Vanja But many bios's have a pata/sata mode that can confuse the hell out of Linux. I can't remember the specifics, but the setting should be noticeable in the bios settings, -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!