Re: [newbie] lack of proper DMA w/ Maxtor D740X 80gb drives

2002-08-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 29 2002 01:45 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: > Thanks for the nudge, Femme. > > On the Expert list, Tom Brinkman had the following wisdom to impart: > > "> Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line: > > ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune > > floppy=daring > > and und

Re: [newbie] lack of proper DMA w/ Maxtor D740X 80gb drives

2002-08-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Mark Stewart wrote: > > Hey, > Anyone have a similiar experience or a good idea of where to start? > > cheers, > ::mark search the archives on the newbie & expert list for a post by Civilme on nForce boards. He had useful stuff to say * and not say * about them. -- Femme Good Decisions Yo

[newbie] lack of proper DMA w/ Maxtor D740X 80gb drives

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Stewart
Hey, The closer I look at the 8.2 install I did on this new Abit nForce board the more glitches I discover. In the course of tracking down why the kupdated daemon would periodically guzzle CPU time whenever I did a lot of disk I/O I discovered (via hdparm) that my two Maxtor 80 drives (which I'm

Re: [newbie] lack of proper DMA w/ Maxtor D740X 80gb drives

2002-08-28 Thread s
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 12:06 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: > Hey, > > The closer I look at the 8.2 install I did on this new Abit nForce > board the more glitches I discover. > Running hdparm with the -Tt benchmark flag showed a pathetic 3.2 > mb/sec for buffered disk reads (buffered cache reads w