RE: VIA VT8251 low performance (was: ASUS A8V-MX)
> Lennart wrote:
[...]
> >> Or with the speed of the drive
This calls for additional testing.
Here are the drives I used for testing on this
VT8251 (AHCI) south bridge on Asus A8V-VM:
- Western Digital WD1600 Caviar SE 160 GB 7k2 RPM
- Hitacht DeskStar T7K250 HDT722525DLA300 250 GB 7k2 RPM
Both with about the same results.
@Lennart: Do you think these drives can't give
a better performace?
> /tmp is residing not on the sata hdd but on an old ide
> disk doing 7200 rpm.
can you please measure the speed you're getting on
VT8251 / SATA?
> Still unable to install onto the sata hdd, as the installer
> isos are failing to detect the bus+hdd. Using the sata hdd
> as a storage area as of now. ;)
you can get it booting:
- get or build a kernel which supports the hardware through
compiled-in drivers and does not need initrd. Add needed
file systems support as well. (You may try do it with initrd
(use mkinitramfs) as well.)
- create, activate and format a root / boot partition on the
sata drive
- backup then change /boot/grub/menue.lst and /etc/fstab
- copy the data (cp -a) excluding /proc/* and /sys/*
- reboot
HTH,
Zrin
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