I recently ran an hdparm -t test on my ide disk (new ATA100 one) against my original scsi disk, and it lost, by quite a bit too. After some toying around i realized that the ide-disk module was using 33Mhz for transfers. It's an Ultra100 controller, so it better damn well do more than 33Mhz. So i tried unloading the module and reloading it with "idebus=66", but i get errors saying its not a valid option. The command i use is: modprobe ide-disk idebus=66 The reason im using 66, and not 100, is that the message it spits out when i do: modprobe ide-disk, says that i should use idebus=xx if i want something other than 33Mhz. 66 fits into xx, 100 doesnt, and right now i'd be happy with 66. So, i was wondering, do alphas only have 33mhz pci buses or something? is there a reason i cant get over that speed going? 7megs/sec transfer isnt exactly lightning fast. Especially seeing how i use it for swap now too. Richard Fillion rick@rhix.ods.org
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