David, Thanks. I'm actually pretty familiar with hdparm itself. My lack of boldness was whether to push the envelope on this new SATA drive. Are you running SATA?
I see some threads on the web where people are getting > 120MB/S from SATA, which is exciting. I just haven't pulled the trigger yet and tried it. Thanks, Mark On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:12, David Stewen wrote: > Mark, > > Try editing your /etc/conf.d/hdparm file and customizing for the sata drive. > > I have something like: > > # disc0_args="-d1 -X66" > # disc1_args"-d1" > # cdrom0_args="-d1" > > # Or, you can set hdparm options for ALL drives using all_args.. > # eg. > # this mimics the behavior of the current script > all_args="-d1 -c1 -u1 -Z" > > > So when I run hdparm I get: > > hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 620/64/63, sectors = 2502308, start = 0 > > Try the hdparm man page for a complete listing of all options. If you know > exactly what your motherboard and hard drive support you can tweak it a lot. > > NOTE: Do an rc-update add hdparm boot to get the parmeters in the above > mentioned file to work on bootup. WARNING be carefull because you can kill > or corupt the hard drive with unsupported options. > > > Good luck. > > David > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:18 AM > Subject: Re: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - Itboots SATA! > > > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:07, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > > > As I told him, get the newest kernel possible. When 2.4.20 was released, > > > did the nForce2 chipset exist ?? If not, it's hard to support it ! :-) > Now > > > you throw in SerialATA support on top of nForce2 and you really > something > > > current. I couldn't get USB support to work with my nForce2 (MSI) based > > > board until I tried 2.4.23_preX kernels. > > > > > > Hall > > > > > > > Hall, Alan, Javier and Jeffery, > > Thanks for your help. I have now managed to boot my A7V8X-D > > motherboard from the onboard SATA drive. It turned out that my 1st, and > > most major problem was that I somehow ended up with multiple copies of > > grub installed on the SATA drive. It gets a bit complicated to explain > > where things are supposed to be in this setup, and all of the drive > > partitionas, but obviously I confused myself in the process of bringing > > it. > > > > Anyway, problem solved and the machine is booting. Thanks for all > > your help! > > > > I am now running 2.4.22-aa1 and it's booting fine from SATA. I did > > build 2.4.23-pre8 using my own quick configuration but there is some > > problem there right now. I'll try that again later today possibly using > > Javier's config file. > > > > The initial SATA drive performance isn't bad, but isn't that great. I > > haven't been bold enough yet to turn on any specific optimizations in > > this new machine yet, so it will likely get better: > > > > Gandalf root # hdparm /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > multcount = 16 (on) > > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > > using_dma = 1 (on) > > keepsettings = 0 (off) > > readonly = 0 (off) > > readahead = 8 (on) > > geometry = 155061/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 > > Gandalf root # > > > > Gandalf root # hdparm -tT /dev/hde > > > > /dev/hde: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128MB in 0.34 seconds=376.47MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64MB in 1.78 seconds= 35.96MB/sec > > Gangalf root # > > > > Not bad, but actually not as good as the EIDE system I'm responding on > > right now: > > > > Wizard root # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1320 MB in 2.00 seconds = 660.00 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.04 seconds = 46.13 MB/sec > > Wizard root # > > > > Both systems are Athlon-XP and Asus motherboards (A7V333-X with a 2600+ > > vs. A7N8X-Deluxe with a 2500+ Barton) and both drives are 80GB. > > > > Now, on to getting more hardware working and X running! > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
