On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:59:24PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm puzzled. A few days ago I installed a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB > hard drive on my system, replacing a fairly old 1 gig drive. I installed it > as slave to my existing 8 gig drive, which holds Debian. I intended to use > it for data (video files, etc.). I created a swap partition (128 MB) and a > 20 gig ext2 partition, leaving the rest of the drive unused for later. > > Since booting with this setup, my system has been dramatically *slower* than > before, particularly when reading from and/or writing to the new drive. > Even things that I wouldn't expect to depend on drive speed, like redrawing > of graphical elements in X, are something like four times slower than > before. > > Does anyone have a suggestion on why this would happen? Or where I can find > more information?
You probably are aware of this but if not, you might need to enable DMA manually for the disk. This can be done with the hdparm program. hdparm -d1 to enable DMA hdparm -d1X69 to enable UDMA mode 5 and so on. Hope that helps, Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
