Kingsly John saw fit to inform me that:
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
>
> |Yes. Throughput is also very low on my machine. One of the reason may be
> |because my HDD (17 GB) is an ATA Hard Disk.
>
>try setting the hdd to 32bit mode...
It is already set.
debian:~# hdparm /dev/hda
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/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
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>
>one thing I found out is that though a lot of ide drives are capable of
>UDMA/66 the hardware support is lacking .. UDMA/66 needs a 80wire ide
>cable but ur hardware guy may have given u a 40wire ide cable.
>
>read ur hdd's specs and see what the the output in dmesg shows if they
>don't match u can do some tweaking to improve performance.
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debian:~# dmesg | grep hda
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: ST317221A, ATA DISK drive
hda: 33683328 sectors (17246 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=2096/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
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Results of hdparm on Kernel 2.4.2 -> No improvements ;-)
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debian:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.82 seconds = 70.33 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 14.72 seconds = 4.35 MB/sec
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Regards
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Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com
Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIA Powered By : Debian GNU/Linux (Potato)
Kernel 2.4.2 &
Mutt 1.3.16i
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