Re: [plug] hdparm(8) and SiS 5513 - based chipsets

[Gideon N. Guillen]

the CyberLizard wrote:

I've been trying to tune my hard drive parameters via
hdparm(8). Strange thing is running the hdparm
benchmark tests ('hdparm -Tt /dev/hda1' on my system)
produces the same results before and after the
settings changes. My drives are hooked up to a SiS
5598/5513-based IDE controller (on-board). Anyone know
how to remedy the situation?

Does this board have built-in video, and the video shares memory with the main memory? If it is, I had one before and it's really slow. The solution was I used a PCI video card. Since then, all disk I/Os have become faster. Must be because the built-in video is hogging some of the bandwith supposed to be used by other things that needs access to memory. The machine is dual-boot. I also have the same problem with the DarkSide OS until I used an old S3 Virge video card from on of my spare parts at home.

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