Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad Haque écrivait : > At the bottom is the IDE/ATA part of my .config. let me knwo if I am > missing something. Should I worry about the Multi_Mode configuration? I have it enabled, however I never used any HPT366 controller, so YMMV. The BX chipset is what I tested the

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Mohammad Haque
At the bottom is the IDE/ATA part of my .config. let me knwo if I am missing something. Should I worry about the Multi_Mode configuration? Pierre Etchemaite wrote: > As a side note, I usually get better results tweaking disks using kernel > compiling options ("default to DMA", "autotune

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Mohammad Haque
Interesting theory, but no go here. I just remembered one other thing that may have an impact. I have a IBM-DTLA-307045 (~45 GB i think) hanging off the same channel as slave. The thing with that one is that if I try to do a lot of i/o on the disk..my machine locks up. Hard. alt-sysReq doesn't

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Pierre Etchemaite wrote: > > Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad A. Haque écrivait : > > Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please > > take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing > > something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd

RE: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad A. Haque écrivait : > Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please > take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing > something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be > able to get more than ~4MB/sec

RE: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad A. Haque écrivait : Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be able to get more than ~4MB/sec off

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Pierre Etchemaite wrote: Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad A. Haque écrivait : Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Mohammad Haque
Interesting theory, but no go here. I just remembered one other thing that may have an impact. I have a IBM-DTLA-307045 (~45 GB i think) hanging off the same channel as slave. The thing with that one is that if I try to do a lot of i/o on the disk..my machine locks up. Hard. alt-sysReq doesn't

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Mohammad Haque
At the bottom is the IDE/ATA part of my .config. let me knwo if I am missing something. Should I worry about the Multi_Mode configuration? Pierre Etchemaite wrote: As a side note, I usually get better results tweaking disks using kernel compiling options ("default to DMA", "autotune chipset",

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad Haque écrivait : At the bottom is the IDE/ATA part of my .config. let me knwo if I am missing something. Should I worry about the Multi_Mode configuration? I have it enabled, however I never used any HPT366 controller, so YMMV. The BX chipset is what I tested the

ide/disk perf?

2000-10-29 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be able to get more than ~4MB/sec off the HPT366 and a UDMA66 drive. Kernel:

ide/disk perf?

2000-10-29 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be able to get more than ~4MB/sec off the HPT366 and a UDMA66 drive. Kernel: