I've had this problem since edgy, the whole system seems to be really
slow and i think it's the hard drives causing it, everything slows down
even more when doing certain tasks (such as checking a torrent file or
amarok updating my music collection).
In system log whenever i boot up i get the following messages in
"kern.log" "messages" and "syslog"
Oct 30 20:45:26 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 55.312000] hda: dma_intr: bad
DMA status (dma_stat=76)
Oct 30 20:45:26 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 55.312000] hda: dma_intr:
status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
Oct 30 20:45:26 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 55.312000] ide: failed opcode
was: unknown
The same comes up for hdb (i have two hard drives installed) and those 3
messages repeat for a while and then this comes up
Oct 30 20:45:41 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 69.256000] hda: DMA disabled
Oct 30 20:45:41 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 69.592000] ide0: reset: success
Here is some information about my hard drives:
jimin@jimin-desktop:~$ hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=ST3160021A, FwRev=8.01, SerialNo=5MT25XGH
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6
* signifies the current active mode
jimin@jimin-desktop:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1622 MB in 2.00 seconds = 811.74 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.82 seconds = 1.05 MB/sec
Code:
jimin@jimin-desktop:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Model=Maxtor 4D080H4, FwRev=DAH017K0, SerialNo=D41VKJ3E
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160086528
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6
* signifies the current active mode
jimin@jimin-desktop:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing cached reads: 1592 MB in 2.00 seconds = 795.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.76 seconds = 1.06 MB/sec
Does anyone know what could be causing this? If you need more information please let me know.
Also could i be CC'ed on this please. Thanks
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