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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:35:45 -0500
From: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
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To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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Subject: Re: Abysmal PATA IDE performance
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Mark Lord wrote:

>Remove the drivers/ide stuff from you system and let libata (ata_piix)
>manage the ICH7.  That should speed things up quite a bit.
>
>-ml
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>  
>
Isn't already enabled?

ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFFA0 irq 14
scsi0 : ata_piix

also this laptop has nothing on ide0 - both the harddrive and dvdrom are 
on ide1.
is this confusing things?

Steve

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