On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote:

> I tried hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX and I got a significant reduction in 
> performance:
> 
> Maxtor:  28mb/sec to 15 mb/sec
> WD: 22mb/sec to 20 mb/sec
> 
> So, I guess I will just leave the dma setting off  (???).

With 28MB/s dma is definitly turned on. Probably by the kernel. I get
14MB/s on a U33 drive which isn't to old.

seb

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