On Tuesday 09 September 2003 03:16, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Mariano" == Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mariano> Hi, when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on > Mariano> the the same controller the whole systems stalls. I am > Mariano> running 2.4.19 on unstable.
> Do you have DMA enabled on your HD? > hdparm /dev/hd? Shyamal, I am running reiserfs - don't know if that is of importance. DMA is enabled on both disks. You can see the output of hdparm below. Anything else I can watch out for? Cheers, Mariano black:/home/mkamp/.kde# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 74G 66G 8.0G 90% / /dev/hda1 7.6M 3.7M 3.6M 52% /boot /dev/hdb1 56G 40G 17G 71% /x2 black:/home/mkamp/.kde# hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 104 MB in 3.04 seconds = 34.21 MB/sec black:/home/mkamp/.kde# hdparm -t /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.05 seconds = 34.75 MB/sec black:/home/mkamp/.kde# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 9729/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 black:/home/mkamp/.kde# hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 7297/255/63, sectors = 117231408, start = 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
