Re: 2.6.0 performance problems

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:17:23PM -0500, Thomas Molina wrote:

 > > >  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
 > > >  AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 > > >  Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1:
 > > Any reason it is currently set to udma2 where it support udma4 ?
 > 
 > Not really.  The question was what mode the disk was running in.  This is 
 > what it defaults to.  This is a laptop drive that only runs at 5400RPM.  
 > Would changing the mode to udma4 make a dramatic difference?  

It's not uncommon for a laptop to have a hard disk which supports
higher DMA modes than what the IDE chipset supports.
My aging Intel 440BX based VAIO has a disk in the same configuration
as yours, supports udma4, but chipset only goes up to udma2.

		Dave

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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