Ok,
The 10 times Ive played with hdparm, I've messed up the installation. I will
never touch hdparm, and will use SCSI forever. That was my newyears resolution. I
know hdparm did help me speed things up, but "playing" with the settings is never a
good idea :))))))))))))
Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
http://www.coinfotech.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 7:12 PM
To: Mandrake Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] hdd speed problem
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 17:16, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I am having still problem with hdd speed.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm /dev/hda
<WHACK>
> I have following lines in dmesg.
> blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
> blk: queue c03cb55c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
> inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
>
> It is shown as 100ATA in bios while booting.
> hdparm -X 69 /dev/hda also doesn't help.
> What to do?
And I'm to assume you've tried:
hdparm -X68 -c3 -m16 -d1 -A1 -W1 /dev/hda
??
Also, you can (stress CAN) force params at kernel boot by appending to
your lilo.conf as the following:
append="quiet devfs=mount idebus=66 ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66"
(tailor it to your system, then re-run lilo)
Try that - and reboot - watch what dmesg says and then try your params
again with hdparm
stephen kuhn - owner
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