Re: [LIH] Re: Re: hdparm with kernel2.4.1

[Raju Mathur]

>>>>> "sreangsu" == sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    >> I got different results on office machine. Buffered cache reads
    >> were rougly 5% higher for partitions than the disk. Buffered
    >> disk reads were in fact slower in one case and same in other
    >> two..

    sreangsu> small variations are ok, cause they do differ. So
    sreangsu> running it some 20 times will give 20 diff results. But
    sreangsu> what puzzles me is that you can set hdparam features on
    sreangsu> a parytition basis, that sounds odd.

Can you?  For instance, can you:

hdparm -u 1 /dev/hda1
hgparm -u 0 /dev/hda2

and have hdparm -u /dev/hda1 ; hdparm -u /dev/hda2 show different
values?  My hdparm (3.6) doesn't permit setting parameters on
partitions at all.

Regards,

-- Raju
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Raju Mathur          [EMAIL PROTECTED]           http://kandalaya.org/

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