On Saturday 26 May 2007 18:07, Ray Lee wrote: > On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in terms of driver, what do you mean ? > > The software driver that handles the specific chipset for that drive. > The thing that shows up when you do an lsmod, assuming you have the > driver compiled as a module.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dmesg |grep -i ide Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 it's compiled in. you reckon I should use something else for this platform ? > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 732 MB in 2.00 seconds = 365.74 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.00 seconds = 25.31 MB/sec > > That looks fine. Your filesystem may just be very fragmented. I'm not > familiar with how reiser3 filesystems age, so if you've had the system > installed for quite some time, it may be time to back it up and > reinstall. Dunno. yeah, and they say unix FSes don't need defragmentation.... my bottom... -- Vercetti - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/