Hi, Jon, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 00:48 you wrote to amanda-users:
JL> On Solaris x86, one thing that terribly degrades IDE disk JL> performance is if the driver does not use dma but uses pio mode. JL> There are even reports of diagnostic tools saying the drive is JL> using dma, but digging deeper determines that pio mode is in use. JL> I know not how to check or configure the HD driver on linux, JL> but it might be something to check. OT: hdparm may help. Try hdparm -i /dev/hdX (substitute X with the fitting char for your prim/sec Master/Slave whatever ....) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
