problems with HAL on Dell c840

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:22 -0500, Greg Rodenhiser wrote:
> I recently did a fresh install on Redhat Fedora Core 3 on my Dell c840
> laptop.  There appears to be a problem with haldaemon on my laptop.  The
> hal daemon seems to really slow down my hard drive access.  Once the OS
> has booted, everything would go very slow, it would take literally 10
> minutes to login to gnome.  Running hdparm -t /dev/hda with haldaemon
> running would return 1 MB/s, making the system unusable.  Once I turn
> off haldaemon, everything is fine.  Anyone else experience this?  I'd
> like to be able to use it, but obviously can't with the hit it puts on
> my laptop.  Is there something I need to configure?  Thanks in
> advance...

Hi,

This is a know issue with certain Dell laptops, and systems where the
harddisk and optical drive share the same IDE channel. For FC3, it is
being tracked here

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148

Here is some discussion on why this is happening and how to work around
is here

 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-November/msg00421.html

Some people have reported that putting a disc into the drive makes the
performance issue go away - can you confirm that?

Thanks,
David 

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