On 2 Sep 2003 at 18:01, Shantanu Kumar wrote:
> hdparm -i /dev/hda shows UDMA mode 2 (*udma2) as active and other
> modes 0 to 4
> as available. Also DMA modes (mdma) 0 to 2 are avilable.
Good enough. What does hdparm -tT gives? It's a simple ebnchmark so run it
while you are not doing anything else..
Varies from 82.0 to 90 MB per sec.
> hdparm /dev/hda shows DMA is already turned on (=1). And > IO_support shows the > default (=0, 16 bit).
You can turn it to 32 bit but I doubt how much difference that would make..
I did that earlier, but without any noticeable gain.
> Do I need to edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks ? I haven't touched
> this file since I
> installed Redhat 9 on my Pentium-III 550MHz box with 192 MB RAM.
> And believe
> me, it is *dog* slow and also my i-ball mouse freezes up often
> once in a while.
That's not HDD.. Get a shining new kernel and it will be warp 10 then..:-)
2.4.22 + CK patch would be good enough? I'm not really prepared to re-install the
whole thing in case it comes crashing down. Or, would you recommend 2.6test ?
Usually /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda in /etc/rc.d/rc.local is sufficient. Rest
kernel will figure it out..
I guess the same is happening now. I didn't even have to mention "-d1".
Regards, Shantanu
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