Re: Desktop Performance Issue (FIXED)

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

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 ppp@DONTSPAMMEfreeshell.org wrote:

> How did you determine the appropriate values for all of the
> other settings you made besides the DMA setting? (Or, where
> did you come across this information for these settings 
> (besides the man page obviously))?

lots o digging/reading or see below

> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Michael wrote:
> > You guys hooked me up. I entered the following hdparm command:
> > 
> > hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda

you can see your supported dma options on your drive
	hdparm -iv /dev/hda  | grep dma
	the  *  indicates its current supported dma option

for old style dma
	32+ dmaMode

for ultra-dma mode
	64+ ultraDMAmode

for ata-66, udma4  -->  -X68
for ata-100 udma5  -->  -X69

for more dma fun
	http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/

for more disk and system tuning
	http://www.Linux-1U.net/Tuning

c ya
alvin