Ashwin D saw fit to inform me that:
>
>> >> >The string to use is ideN=66 where N=the hard disk id.
>> >>
>
>Ashwin swears and kicks himself and requests Rajesh to do the same :)
>
>Rajesh it is ideN=ata66
>*ata* was left out. Heaps of apoligies are piled in your mail box.
>
>after this reboot and try dmesg |grep ATA and u will see a warning on the
>forced speed setting.
debian:/proc/ide/ide0/hda# dmesg | grep ATA
PIIX4: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!!
hda: ST317221A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CRD-8480B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
>
>I changed the cable, now my hdparm -t results are at 9.75 mb/s
>
Even after doing the above change no increase in throughput :-)
debian:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.83 seconds = 69.95 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 13.89 seconds = 4.61 MB/sec
Regards
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