Re: Extremely annoying ext3

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "aaron" == aaron  <aaron@core-dev.com> writes:

    aaron> root@hobbes:~# dmesg | grep ^hd | grep sector 
    aaron> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
    aaron>  CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(33)

    aaron> I haven't had a chance to go verify the DMA settings on my
    aaron> Debian file server box yet, but I'll definitely post
    aaron> something when I find out how its DMA is doing.

Aaron,

An somewhat easier way to find out:

~$ 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     = 7297/255/63, sectors = 117231408, start = 0
 busstate     =  1 (on)

And, as another poster pointed out when correcting me about Red Hat,
the best way to run this on Debian on boot up is to install the
hwtools package and edit /etc/init.d/hwtools.

Good luck!

Cheers!
Shyamal