slow hard disk

[Christophe Le Guern]

hi all,

I have a fresh install of fedora cora 1.
Unfortunally, the system is very slow.
I have play with hdparm options ( google search for my HD) without success

if someone have the solution, I'm very interested.

christophe

# /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:

 Model=Maxtor 54098U8, FwRev=DA6207V0, SerialNo=K80CP4FC
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80041248
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17:

# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  3 (32-bit w/sync)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 4982/255/63, sectors = 80041248, start = 0


# /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   576 MB in  2.00 seconds = 288.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:    2 MB in 14.46 seconds = 141.63 kB/sec