[ale] Slow CF/Cardbus Read Rate

[Greg Freemyer]

Jeff,

At that speed, I suspect your using PIO mode not DMA.

You may be able to fix it via hdparm.

Or you may need to use a newer kernel.

Or even 2.6.29 may not have DMA support for the card in question.

Greg

2009/2/18 Jeff Hubbs <jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com>:
> I've got a thin client here that's using a purportedly 30MB/s Sandisk CF
> card in a CardBus/CF adapter, but I'm only getting 3.0MB/s reads as measured
> by both dd and hdparm.  Any way I can speed that up?
>
> - Jeff
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