[Gllug] IDE issues

[Kim Hawtin]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:19:12AM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> And another thing.
> I have a new (Athlon) m/b which has the new VIA KT333 chipset and an
> ATA133 IDE channel with an IBM ATA100 HD in it. Under Linux (Mandrake
> 8.2) 2.4.18, the hard drive access CHUGS big time when shifting large
> files about. When copying to the machine across the network, it caches
> the first 20 or 30 MB and then when it flushes to disk, the whole
> machine slows to a crawl, the mouse/keyboard barely respond etc...
> I mean I know IDE requires more CPU power than SCSI but this is
> ridiculous. Is it because of the newness of the chipset and lack of
> driver support or should I disable UDMA133 (or whatever it's called) in
> BIOS? Maybe hdparm?


this may sound like a silly question, but have used the new fangled
high density cables?

and does your drive support the UDMA modes your using, auto detect
doesn't always work ...

yours,

kim


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