Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya mike

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> > it also says you're running in  *mdma2 ....
> > 	you should reset your disk to be  ATA-100 ( hdparm -X69 ... )
> 
> Erm, on a "p130"?(i assume he meant either a p120 or 133)
> 
> I wanna see a machine that can handle ata-100, when the ram barely moves
> at 30 meg a second 

it'd be a cute test/performance if it does..

-- you missed(:-)  that i meant to say the bios can't handle disks 
   over 32GB   ( not as mistakenly typed as 32MB )

-- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well
   if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk
   speed  of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB  or rated sata 160MB  or rated scsi
   speeds
	- have not see any system achive full-rated-disk-tranfers

c ya
alvin