In reply to Marcus Radich's message of the 16/04/00 at 10:51 +1200,
>Celeron 400
>VIA 133pro chipset motherboard
>128MB RAM
>Ultra33
>IBM 13GB IDE disk
>
>/dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.11 seconds =41.16 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 8.21 seconds = 7.80 MB/sec
>
>Using Helios Lantest, I get 6MB/sec read/writes.
>
>Copying a folder of over 3000 files shows about 2MB/sec....
I don't if this is generally known, but if you're not running a very
recent kernel (2.3.x), UDMA (33, 66) isn't enabled by default. Try
adding the following to your rc.local script and rebooting:
hdparm -c1 -u1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda
On my systems (PIII/500, VIA IDE chipset, ATA/33 disk, 5400 rpm), the
hdparm disk-read went from about 4 MB/sec to 14+ MB/sec when I did
this; Lantest now reports file xfer times around 9000 kbytes/s. YMMV.
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