On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:50, Kirk Bocek wrote: > Here's the output on my SATA drive: > > # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 3832 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1915.88 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl > for device Timing buffered disk reads: 184 MB in 3.02 seconds = 60.84 > MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > > So it fails on some sort of IO command but still runs the benchmark. > > Kirk
those IO errors are normal as hdparm is designed for IDE while the SATA drivers treat SATA as a SCSI device. from your numbers though, DMA is definitely on. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
