Re: Abysmal PATA IDE performance

From: Stephen Clark
Date: Thu Nov 09 2006 - 09:40:20 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:

Probably your drives are renamed.
Before you had (wild guess, look at your boot log messages):
- ata bus -> hdc,hdd
- sata -> sda (if you really have any sata bus...)

Now all hdX become sdX, and PATA is detected _before_ SATA, so you names
probaly became:
- ata via libata -> sda (HD), sr0 (CDROM)
- sata -> sdb.



on fedora this doesn't matter (due to mount-by-label)

the bigger problem I suspect is that the sata modules aren't part of the
initrd!

you can force the issue by adding

alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix

to the /etc/modprobe.conf file, and then recreating the initrd
(see the mkinitrd tool, or just install the kernel rpm)






Thanks all.

Arjan, using combined_mode=libata and making a new ramdisk increased my xfer rate from 1.xx mb/sec to 28.xx mb/sec.

I am curious as to why my friends dell inspiron 8200 with a 1.8ghz p4 and the same drive using the same drive with FC6 and the standard ide module gets 44 to 45 mb/sec.

Steve

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