Hi,
If your motherboard/disk support ATA66 you can try :
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
append="idebus=66"
in your lilo.conf. This will work with the 2.4 kernel.
There should be a massive difference in performance thereafter.
-Avinash
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The hard disk at my office which is 8GB seems to give better performance compared
> to my home hard disk 17GB ?
>
> As Shridhar pointed out his hdparm tests give the following output.
>
> Timing buffer-cache reads: = around 130MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: = 20 MB/sec
>
> On my office hard disk it is around the same as above after doing
>
> hdparm -a1 -c1 -d1 /dev/hda
>
>
> On my home PC with 17GB seagate Hard disk I have compiled DMA support into the kernel
> ( kernel 2.4 ) and I do hdparm -a1 -c1 /dev/hda during startup. But I get the
>following
> test results which are very low. :
>
> debian:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.09 seconds = 61.24 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 13.38 seconds = 4.78 MB/sec
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> debian:~# hdparm /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 0 (off)
> I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> nowerr = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 1 (on)
> geometry = 2096/255/63, sectors = 33683328, start = 0
> debian:~#
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Can anybody point out what could be the reason for this and what I can do to
>increase the
> performance of my Hard Disk. I am on Debian.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
>
>
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National Centre for Biological Sciences
Bangalore.
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