<quote who="Russell Coker"> > There's a number of guides that tell you about hdparm and what DMA is, but if > you already know that stuff then there's little good documentation.
"Oh bum." :) > Then on the rare occasions that I do meet people who know this stuff > reasonably well they seem to spend all their time trying to convince me that > SCSI is better than IDE (regardless of benchmark results). :( Heh, there's a religious war waiting to happen. > > [1] http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html I've just found that iostat (in unstable's sysstat package) supports extended I/O properties in /proc if you have sct's I/O monitoring patches. Unfortunately, the last one on his ftp site is for 2.3.99-preBlah. I sent an email to lkml last night to see if there's a newer patch - I'll follow up here if so. Thanks Russell, - Jeff -- Wars end, love lasts.