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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:30:09 -0500
From: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@...lark.us>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata and sata?
John Richard Moser wrote:
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>A while back my distro moved to libata for sata_via. I was since
>confused; my disk seemed a lot slower, and it looked like DMA was off.
>I'm not sure how SATA works; is it even possible to enable/disable
>32-bit IO and DMA? Or are those just on?
>
>sata_via 11524 4
>libata 112660 3 ata_generic,pata_via,sata_via
>
>~$ sudo hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 /dev/sda
>
>/dev/sda:
> setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1
> HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
> setting unmaskirq to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
>
>I no longer have two kernels to test through; I can't tell if the speed
>is back or not. Nothing in dmesg tells me if SATA is using DMA or
>32-bit IO support though, so I don't know... lack of knowledge over here
>is killing me for troubleshooting this on my own.
>
>
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Hi John,
This happened to me with my ICH7 intel chipset which supports sata and ata - my drive was an ide and the performance was like 1.2mb/sec. Someone said boot with combined_mode=libata and it fixed the problem.
Now I get 44mb/sec.
HTH,
Steve
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