Alternative to k3b? or why is everything soooooo slow?

[Bruce Labitt]

mike ledoux wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:32:22PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
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>>>It looks like it is udma4, doesn't it?
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>>  That's what that appears to say.  I'm not entirely sure how well
>>that relates to the "-d" switch, though.  IDE is screwy.  For all I
>>know, it could be in UDMA4 mode but not actually using DMA.
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>I've seen this on one of my systems.  The drive reported a UDMA mode
>set, and no PIO modes set, but was not actually using DMA. 'hdparm
>-d /dev/hda' showed that using_dma was set to 0 (off), and 'hdparm
>-d 1 /dev/hda' did resolve the problem.
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Thanks for the tip, unfortunately hdparm -d /dev/hdc returns:

/dev/hdc:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)