On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Martin Eriksson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 8:11 PM
> Subject: IDE is still crap.. or something
>
>
> > Well, just wanted to tell you that 2.4.15 still slows down to a crawl when
> > copying a 500MB file between two hard drives (running ext3). I have tried
> > any of the -c -u -m -W settings in hdparm. I even applied the 2.4.14 IDE
> > patch (after fixing the rejects) but no go.
> >
> > Even iptables is affected, because it takes forever to surf the internet
> > from my behind-linux-firewall windows computer.
> >
> > I'm right now trying to apply the preemptive-kernel patch to 2.4.15 but it
> > had some strange rejects so it will be exciting to see if it works. I get
> > good response from the -ac kernel series though.
>
> I applied the ide patch and the preemptive-kernel patch, and so far so good.
> Response is up again, but I'm not sure how well I fixed the .rej files.
> There were some reference to a "still_running" label that I simply
> ignored... *shrug*
>
> Btw, i run my (pretty slow) hard disks on my BP6 HPT366 controller.
>
> _____________________________________________________
> | Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
> | MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science
> | Umeå University, Sweden
>
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