2009/4/15 Rob Judd <haiqu@xxxxxxxxxx>: > David McPaul wrote: >> >> On 2009-04-16, Rob Judd <haiqu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Evidently the image I found at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/haiku was >>> ancient, >>> despite having a date of 13 April 2009. I unpacked it to find that it was >>> from about 2005. :( >>> >>> Got around the slow copy between drives problem eventually by zipping the >>> sources, copying that, and unzipping again. It saved about 6 hours. >> >> Can you give more details about your system? >> >> Have a look at ideinfo and idestatus. I wonder if DMA is on for you. >> >> I just recently moved my development across to haiku on a EeePC. It >> is a single drive and I zipped the sources from my BeOS machine, >> ftp'ed to the Haiku machine and unzipped. >> >> Unzipping took about 30mins or so. >> >> It was interesting how the machine worked while it was unzipping >> though. Lots of CPU followed by a long pause (presumably IO). While >> IO was going on the system was unresponsive. >> > ~> ideinfo /dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw > Model Number: WDC WD80EB-28CGH1 > Serial Number: WD-WMA9N1650914 > Firmware Version: 24.84G24 > > Capacity: 7.5 GB > LBA supported: yes > > DMA supported: yes > DMA mode: 0x00 > READ/WRITE DMA QUEUED: not supported > > Write Cache: supported > Look Ahead: supported > Bus Release IRQ: not supported > Service start transfer IRQ: not supported > NOP: not supported > FLUSH CACHE: not supported > FLUSH CACHE EXT: not supported > > CFA features: not supported > Removable: no > Removable Media State Notification features: not supported > > Microcode download: supported > S.M.A.R.T: supported > Power Management: supported > > ~> idestatus /dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw > dma_status: dma enabled > pio mode: 0 > dma mode: 0x00 Interestingly my details are similar Mount Type Total Free Flags Device --------------- -------- --------- --------- ------- -------------------------- /boot bfs 4.0G 846.2M QAM-P-W /dev/disk/ata/0/master/3 ~> ideinfo /dev/disk/ata/0/master/3 Model Number: ST980811AS Serial Number: 5LYANH7P Firmware Version: 3.ALC Capacity: 74.5 GB LBA supported: yes DMA supported: yes DMA mode: 0x00 READ/WRITE DMA QUEUED: not supported Write Cache: supported Look Ahead: supported Bus Release IRQ: not supported Service start transfer IRQ: not supported NOP: not supported FLUSH CACHE: supported FLUSH CACHE EXT: supported CFA features: not supported Removable: no Removable Media State Notification features: not supported Microcode download: supported S.M.A.R.T: supported Power Management: supported ~> idestatus /dev/disk/ata/0/master/3\ > dma_status: dma enabled pio mode: 0 dma mode: 0x00 ~> I wonder if the dma mode is being reported correctly. -- Cheers David