by I just installed RH7.2(company standard) on my work machine. Noticed
that the hard disk was really slow and was planning on optimizing it
using hdparm.
But upon trying to run some of the options, I am get getting a
"Invalid argument " error message for some of the options, such as -i,
-d1. But some options work just fine.
I have heard that I might not have kernal support for my chipset,
which is Southbridge Sis961B. But was not sure if that was the
problem, and if it is, am not sure how I would go about rebuilding the
kernal I need. If anyone can help me out with this, I would really
appreciate it.
-thanks
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/dev/hda2:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.35 seconds =365.71 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 20.38 seconds = 3.14 MB/sec
/dev/hda2:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 38496500 8922884 27618104 25% /
/dev/hda1 46636 8651 35577 20% /boot
none 257216 0 257216 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument
/dev/hda2:
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 5005/255/63, sectors = 78220485, start = 96390
busstate = 1 (on)
/dev/hda2:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
using_dma = 0 (off)