lists wrote: > hdparm -tT /dev/sda > > timing cached 98 MB in 2.04 seconds = 48.01 MB per second > timing buffered 18MB in 3.28 seconds = 5.49 MB per second > > which tells me definitely that this hardware has lost it's mind, it > thinks the ide interface is a scsi interface. > This is expected. The /dev/hdX nodes are supposed to go away, that's the decision of the kernel developers. They wrote new drivers for IDE controllers that pretend that they are SCSI. On the LiveCD, the "pata" boot parameter enables the new drivers.
What I didn't see in your report is the result of "hdparm -tT /dev/hda" after "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" (don't try this on sda - there will be no effect). I ask because even very old 2GB hard disks connected to P166 machines from year 1995 in the classroom are capable of 10 MB/s. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
