Author: Vic Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu, DMA, and 32-bit I/O
> Is that your only drive?
Yep.
> I had serious problems when mixing SATA and
> PATA. I ask because you have a PATA device showing up on what looks
> like a SATA device node /dev/sda
This appears to be the new way of doing things; both PATA and SATA are
handled by libata, and show up as /dev/sdX. Unfortunately, this seems to
mean that certain (perhaps all) PATA drives run like complete dogs :-(
I've found an option to use at install time that turns this off
(allegedly...), but so far, I haven't found anything that will fix things
after installation. So I've got a shiny new Kubuntu machine that is quite
astoundingly slow (>90% in wait as soon as I try to do anything).
