Hi,
Ok, I finally got around to discovering hdparm, a very useful program.
I got it to boost the speed of my old ata33 drive by about 10 Meg/sec.
Now, I'm trying to get it to speed up my ATA66 WD drive and am having
some serious issues. I was able to increase the speed by about 2 meg/sec
with out turning on DMA. When I try to set the DAM bit to on, it locks
the harddrive up. Now, my question is actually two here:
#1: What do I need to get the best performance out of my WD Ata66 Drive?
It's about 3 months old.
#2: Could there be a problem with the kernel build that prevents DMA use
with this drive? If so, would a rebuild work enabling it? What options
were built into the kernel?
Bryan
