[CentOS] Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5

Alfred von Campe alfred at von-campe.com
Fri Aug 31 17:10:03 UTC 2007


On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:20, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

> See if the drive supports DMA and 32-bit IO and if it does set it
> with hdparm (put in the hdparm.conf to do so across reboots).

I guess that is what I am asking.  How do I do set the appropriate  
parameters with hdparm?

> And look into getting a SATA replacement, the PATA on these boards
> are really meant for DVD/CD-ROMs, etc.

The are all SATA drives (2 HDDs and 2 optical drives).  But because  
there are two controllers, one of the HDDs shows up as /dev/hda and  
the other as /dev/sda.

Alfred




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