a typo error in my last mail makes it incomprenhensible so
> other note jonathan the box im using doesnt support the
> whole drive,
> but bsd's kernel DOES once its loaded, i fear the
****
> rawdevices would
> bring me back to the unsupported drive in bios issue,
>
> would raw dev use my bios's specs, or the bsd's
> specs,
>
> ill peek at the src, but if someone could comment that..
>
>
> cheers !
>
> neko
>
> > --- On Mon, 8/25/08, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > This hits the buffer cache, use raw devices for
> > anything
> > apart
> > from mounting, ie /dev/rwd0c
Neko wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > having a 250 GB drive on a PATA strip using
> > > lowest PIO
> > > mode (without dma if possible), drive specs show a 8
> > > MB
> > > buffer ,
> > >
> > > 2 cases are : on same pata strip, one on each
> > > strip,
> > >
> > > important to note that the booted drive is the
> > > if's straight up to my slave.
> > > (yea i know ill have to run fsck afterwards since
> > > itll
> > > think it still mounted)
> > > and having no user but su himself.
> > >
> > > i had ran mine at 4mb block space thinking ill
> > > use the
> > > 16mb bus transfer
> > > divided at most in 4, per second, but i achieved
> > > that
> > > in a minute instead.
> > > this is really poor performance, 3 days for
> > > 250gb
> > > transfer at 4mb bs
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/wd0c of=/dev/wd1c bs=4m
> > >
neko
