I thought you needed to set -c3 when using dma...maybe I should set mine to
d1 and then try again. I've tried several dif combos but it always locks
when dma is turned on. And my WD was bought in Jan.
Bryan
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Subject: RE: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive
I wonder how current it has to be ...got my drives about 6 months ago.
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>DMA works fine on CURRENT Wd disks. There was an issue with an earlier
>disk.
>
>just a simple test on my Mandrake7.0 box with a single WD 27 GIG drive.
>(Using bonnie)
>Fresh reboot, no hdparm:
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential
>Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per
>Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec
>%CPU
> 100 4261 73.5 5092 7.5 1776 19.8 2928 71.9 3956 18.5 288.7
>8.3
>
>Reboot again. Then hdparm -d1c1 /dev/hda (then run bonnie again)
>
> -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential
>Input-- --Random--
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per
>Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec
>%CPU
> 100 7919 99.3 28024 30.9 9332 20.8 7509 86.8 19223 16.9 440.1
>2.4
>
>That's a pretty good improvement for a drive that isn't susposed to work at
>all in UDMA mode.
>
>--
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>
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> > From: bobby dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 5:04 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive
> >
> >
> > Well, it looks like you got lucky. I have a 13 gig and an 8
> > gig WD and they
> > are both slow. The funny thing is that the 8 gig is a 5400
> > rpm drive and
> > hdparm says it is a shade faster than the 13 gig drive, which
> > is a 7200 rpm
> > drive...go figure. ...around 4.7 megs/sec each.
> >
> > I wish I knew this before I bought the drives. I got them at
> > Best Buy and
> > they sale both WD and Maxtor drives ...it was a flip of the coin then
> > ...should have done my research ...maybe next time!! :)
> >
> >
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> > >On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, there is no way to use DMA on WD drives? Man, this
> > stinks. Why are
> > >WD
> > > > hard drives so much slower than others? It seems like
> > this would be
> > >widely
> > > > know and people wouldn't but them.
> > >
> > >Model=WDC AC310200R
> > >
> > >This one works with standard Mandrake hdparm options.
> > >
> > >Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.10 seconds = 12.55 MB/sec
> > >
> > >It's okay.
> > >
> > >seb
> > >
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