Re: SATA/PATA drives

From: Hendric Stattmann (DELETETHIShendric.stattmann_at_bluewin.ch)
Date: 01/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:25:51 +0100

Kevin & Theresa Miller wrote:

> My question is, how does the performance of a SATA drive w/DMA off compare
> with
> a PATA (normal IDE) drive? SATA with DMA should be quite a bit faster of
> course, but I'm not sure how to compare the DMA crippled SATA Barracuda
> with the PATA Barracuda (or similar drive).

Hi Kevin,
The non-DMA access of SATA drives is a kernel 2.4 issue. The patch applied
by SuSE does not support DMA. Your solution consists in upgrading to kernel
2.6, which is not trivial, unfortunately.

Regards Hendric 

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