Vanja Hrustic wrote: > 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 :) > Could be. I'm certainly not an expert on the subject. If/when you get it fixed, I'd appreciate it if you'd post your solution. Maybe it will help others (like me!) out. Cheers,