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Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE

From Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE
Date 2016-04-11 13:17 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <neg85f$2am$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 02:47:29 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
> I've had to replace a failed 80G IDE drive with a 150G SATA drive.
> 
> Writes to the new HD seem to be hogging memory, stalling X response and
> other HD reads such as causing  music playing from a .wav file on HD to
> stutter.
...
> The new SATA HD plugs into one of two ports on the IBM mobo labeled
> "SATA IDE 1" and "SATA IDE 2".   The drive is seen by Linux as hda, not
> sda. (Some on-mobo emulation I don't know about?)

Perhaps. Go into the BIOS setup. Try turning off things like "legacy"
or "emulated" etc.

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HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-11 02:47 -0300
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2016-04-11 09:14 +0200
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-11 16:54 +0000
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-11 07:22 +0000
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-11 04:19 -0500
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-13 00:06 -0300
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-13 13:26 -0500
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-11 11:30 +0200
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2016-04-11 13:17 +0000
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-11 15:43 +0000
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-12 23:42 -0300
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 03:29 +0000
        Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-15 03:08 -0300

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