Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114131
horrible hard drive transfer speeds
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114 Firebird/0.7+ Description of problem: With a fresh install of Fedora Core 1 on my Dell Latitude CPi D266XT Laptop when i open a terminal and run hdparm -tT /dev/hda1 I recieve almost 9MB/s constant data transfers with 20MB/s for the cache. I then tried one of the unofficial rpms for the 2.6.x kernel and recieved the same performance issue. I then downloaded the source code to 2.4.24 and compiled the kernel myself. I rebooted and ran the same hdparm command under the same situation. I recieved almost 9MB/s constant data transfers but I also recieved 109MB/s for my hard drives cache. The computer was much more responsive with the new kernel and ran amazing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-xxxx How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.do an install of fedora core 1 2.hdparm -tT /dev/hda1 3. Actual Results: 9MB/s constant data 20MB/s cache Expected Results: 9MB/s constant data 109MB/s cache Additional info: The Dell Latitude CPi D266XT uses a PII cpu. It uses the Intel PIIx ide module.
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