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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 00:03:01 -0400
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: sync slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:57:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Possibly what is happening is that the /tmp partition lies on
> a part of the disk which has a higher platter transfer speed
> and this higher speed is causing retries or other problems
> further down the chain.
> 
> You could have a fiddle with hdparm, try slowing down the
> interface speed.  Try a different set of cables, too.

Just tried with dma disabled, same problem.  I'm gonna try another IDE
controller and see if it still happens.

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