Re: Help with hdparm

[chainy <chainy@infonegocio.com>]

After spending a lot of time configuring hdparm (it begins to feel like some 
kind of addiction to get better results) I found that my results are quite 
modest, and feels like it should go faster.

I have a 1st Mainboard SD11 with an AMD Athlon 500 Mhz.  The HD: Seagate 600 
GB 7200 rpm.

The mainboard people swears it's capable of ata/66 but i am only getting 
ata/33 to work.  The VIA8XXX chipset option is compiled in kernel and my 
hdparm options are:  -X34 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3.  I can't activate X66 or higher, 
the HD will start giving errors.

The results wont go further than 13 Mb/s.

Any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks a lot.

Chainy.

On Monday 26 August 2002 06:56, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> >>Mine went from
> >>
> >>  /dev/hdb:
> >>   Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.93 seconds = 66.32 MB/sec
> >>   Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 24.01 seconds =  2.67 MB/sec
> >>
> >>to
> >>
> >>  /dev/hdb:
> >>   Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.92 seconds = 66.67 MB/sec
> >>   Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.46 seconds = 18.50 MB/sec
>
> What hard drive do you have?
> Is there a website with a database of results like this anywhere?  It'd
> be nice to compare my results with others'.  I've been messing with
> hdparm and seem to be getting good results but then again I have no idea
> what good is for my drive.
>
> Drive: IBM 60GXP 40Gig
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.62 seconds =206.45 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.70 seconds = 37.65 MB/sec
>
> Cheers,
> Leo