Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I am running a ThinkPad A31 (1 year old) notebook with 256 MB of RAM, and a 1.8 Ghz Pentium-M processor. While this is by no means a cutting edge system, it is still nevertheless an acceptable system. However the system is really under-performing, and it is complete

Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Stephen Touset
Agreed. To the original poster, try using hdparm. You can use it to turn on DMA to the device (which seems like the most obvious source of the problem to me) by using `hdparm -d1 /dev/`. If that doesn't fix the problem, use hdparm to run a test on the hard drive, and also use it to output the hard

Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > I am running a ThinkPad A31 (1 year old) notebook with 256 MB of RAM, > and a 1.8 Ghz Pentium-M processor. While this is by no means a cutting > edge system, it is still nevertheless an acceptable system. > > However the system is really unde

Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
hdparm <- a miracle of a program man hdparm will tell all aswell. Enabling DMA would be a good place to start (hdparm -d 1 device). To test the throughput your hard drives are getting try hdparm -Tt device I assume device will be /dev/hda in this case -- Cheers, rinmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: I am running a ThinkPad A31 (1 year old) notebook with 256 MB of RAM, and a 1.8 Ghz Pentium-M processor. While this is by no means a cutting edge system, it is still nevertheless an acceptable system. However the system is really under-performing, and it is completely apparent to me