Re: Am I using my hard drives right?
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:17:28AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> hdparm -i /dev/hda
What do these numbers tell you? Sucks, or joy?
Like I said, I tried to grok the zen of hdparm, but I threw up my hands
-- it all looks very experimental and there is very little clear cut
"when x, do y" advice.
I've running 2.4.24 and have done nothing special with hdparm; is it
*possible* there is nothing to do, or is hdparm tweaking *always*
required?
desk:/home/tom# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 54610H6, FwRev=JAC61HU0, SerialNo=F603SFXC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=90045648
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0:
* signifies the current active mode
desk:/home/tom# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 1916 MB in 2.00 seconds = 958.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 92 MB in 3.02 seconds = 30.46 MB/sec
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