IO slowdown with latest FC4 kernel

[Gautam Apte]

On 10/2/05, Michael Nischt <zero at monoid.net> wrote:
> I've got the same problem, the harddisk in my dell notebook (precision
> M70) extremly slowed down since the kernel update to 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 -
> it became absolutly impossible to work on this computer:
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   2784 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1391.91 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:    6 MB in  3.03 seconds =   1.98 MB/sec
>
> Furthermore, I noticed that the harddrive formerly was /dev/sda1 and now
> is /dev/hda1, which is probably the reason but I don't know how to fix
> this. I hope there is an easy way, because I'm not that familiar with
> linux to go into compiling the kernel.
>
> best regards
> -Michael Nischt
>

Try putting ide0=noprobe in your grub.conf.
-Gautam