[ILUG] hdparm ide brutal performance - ubuntu

[Liam Bedford]

Nils Olofsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:09 +0100, Conor Wynne wrote:
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>>Worse than useless. Anyone got an idea on this?
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> I had same problem a few months ago,the solution was to compile the ide
> driver(my case was the VIA82CXXX) not as a module but directly into
> kernel. The "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted" went away for
> me and the drive throughput went from about 2megs a second to around 20
> or more..
the fix to that is to use /etc/modules to load the right ones and make
the initrd again.

L.