[Wolves] Slow file transfer in Ubuntu 7.04

[Adam Sweet]

--- James Turner <james at turnersoft.co.uk> wrote:

> Adam Sweet wrote:
> > --- Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >> Ever since I installed Ubuntu I have always
> >> experienced slow transfer rates if I drag and
> drop
> >> from one folder to another. It seems to be
> slowest
> >> when transferring photos.  DMA is enabled. I have
> >> not experienced this with any distros. This is
> also
> >> the case if I am burning a DVD, e.g. Linux Format
> >> DVD it is very very slow, almost in the order of
> an
> >> hour to burn it? The hardware is OK.
> > 
> > Hey Mo (where you goin to with that gun in your
> hand*)
> > 
> > I don't know of any Ubuntu issues which would
> cause
> > this kind of problem, but I did come across an
> article
> > today which discusses disk performannce:
> > 
> >
>
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-fast-is-linux-sata-hard-disk.html
> 
> Although not that likely, but it may be worth
> confirming that the poor
> performance isn't due to disc errors/retries. A
> quick way to investigate:
> 
>  - Do a slow file transfer
>  - Open up a terminal
>  - Type:
>      dmesg
> 
> A load of technical gibberish will scroll past - the
> device detection
> 
> . If lines such as these appear at the end then
> that's indicative of an
> error:
> 
> kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {
> DriveStatusError }

Hurghhhhhh. My least favourite error message ever :(

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