Bug 97134 - slow harddisk on inspiron 8200
Summary: slow harddisk on inspiron 8200
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 73661
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: magicdev
Version: 9
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-06-10 18:48 UTC by Trond Thorbjørnsen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:56:39 UTC
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Description Trond Thorbjørnsen 2003-06-10 18:48:59 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131

Description of problem:
Harddisk - 40 GB, 5400 RPM - preinstalled

I thought the harddisk was about to collapse. When I opened maildirs in mutt, it
was extremely slow with reading the same file every time.

The computer was also very slow in opening terminal windows and starting emacs -nw.

So - I contacted Dell support, but they wouldn't help me of course, but I found
some help here:
<http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=linuxport&message.id=80>

I also got some DMA-error messages occasionally. I hope that this was the reason.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Gnome magicdev 1.1.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read a maildir in mutt
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  The harddisk is extremely slow for a few seconds

Expected Results:  It should have read with constant speed.

Additional info:

It was 3 seconds away from uninstalling RedHat and install some other
distribution instead... it seemed like a much bigger problem than it was (who
needs automount, anyway? :) )

And also - since it looked like a hardware error, I discreditted myself and
Redhat to the norwegian dell support ... :)

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2003-06-10 19:16:45 UTC
DVD/CD-RW combo? If so, it's a duplicate of bug 73661.


Comment 2 Trond Thorbjørnsen 2003-06-10 22:15:08 UTC
You're right!
Sorry to duplicate anything, but since my problem was the harddisk speed I
didn't notice.

Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2003-06-10 22:43:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73661 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:56:39 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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