Comment 3 for bug 48499
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| Per Heldal (heldal) wrote Re: Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200 | #3 |
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Blaming hald isn't entirely correct ;) This is really a design problem with IDE. It has been discussed repeatedly on the kernel mailinglist over the years related to things like magicdev, and now hal, which continously poll the status of IDE devices blocking access to both devices on a channel during the poll. Maybe HAL should leave the removable drive alone when it detects other devices on the same channel, and recommend the user to re-organize the devices with removable units on separate channels. Notebook users with badly designed systems and users with more than 2 PATA devices may not be able to make such changes though. As is, hald is causing problems for all configurations with 2 IDE devices on a channel unless they both are harddrives.