chainy <chainy@infonegocio.com> [2002-08-27 04:26:55 +0200]: > 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. I have an FIC SD11 as well but with an Athlon 950 MHz. I am running a 2.4.18 kernel. DMA is enabled by default in the kernel for me. (Which I remember as needing to turn on with previous kernels.) I have a Maxtor ATA/100 capable 60GB 7200 rpm currently installed and these are my results. hdparm -Tt /dev/hda Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.84 seconds =152.38 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.96 seconds = 32.65 MB/sec hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 7299/255/63, sectors = 117266688, start = 0 busstate = 1 (on) > The mainboard people swears it's capable of ata/66 but i am only getting > ata/33 to work. FIC does claim that works ATA/66 works. But I have never gotten that speed out of my motherboard drive combination. Otherwise it has been a reliable performer for me. Bob
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