Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy

[Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com>]

> I googled on "82801GBM/GHM slow" and found a lot to read.

will read through that ,...

> Is DMA for this drive enabled? It seems that some others didn't have
> it enabled by default, or maybe at all. I didn't real the threads very
> far.

the udma5 mode seems to be enabled , though I can't really make any
sense out of it:

hdparm -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

 Model=TOSHIBA MK1234GSX                       , FwRev=AH001H  ,
SerialNo=           372HFDVGS
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=234441648
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7

 * signifies the current active mode

> hdparm -d1 /dev/sda

got the following error when I tried setting the mode as above, I
think along with -d1 we need to give some "X" argument( or so reads
the man page)..

 hdparm -d1 /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

> Clearly, since you see the same thing in a console with X never having
> been started says it's not a GUI issue.

yes I suppose, but any idea how I figure out what exactly is causing
the IOWAIT, .. and if there are any patches, let me know, I can test
them .

Cheers
Satish
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