Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:32, Jeff wrote: > Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... > > Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely > any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original > thread onto the security mailing list by mist

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Jeff: > > See here: > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 3016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1507.91 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads:4 MB in 3.68 seconds = 1.09 MB/sec > > Horribly slow! This machine should be blazing fast, with the 7200 rpm > 200 GB hard dri

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness... [SOLVED]

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Ok, so with some quick tips from the nice peoples here in the list, I was almost instantly able to track down the culprit to my hard draive whackiness. It's my ATI IDE controller: 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI In the kernel, I found: Dev

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff
Moving my thread over to the proper list... first... Now then - thanks to everyone on the list for your help. I've had barely any sleep lately, so I must apologize first, for putting the original thread onto the security mailing list by mistake. For anyone who's wondering - I have an AMD64 box, w