On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:57 pm, Ryan Moe wrote:
> Hmm, it appears my drive is using 16-bit IO mode.  Is this a large
> factor in HD performance? 
ahhh yes 16 is half of 32 so it is about 1/2 speed


> /dev/hde:
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.37 seconds = 46.72 MB/sec
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:58, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:08:10 -0600
> >
> > Ryan Moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I guess it could be that my hd perhaps isn't configured correctly and
> > > the real bottleneck isn't my CDR eating up CPU but my HD eating up CPU
> > > to send data to the CDR.
> >
> > Can you post the output of
> > # hdparm -ctT /dev/hde
> >
> >
> >     Charles
> >
> > --
> > Love your neighbour, yet don't pull down your hedge.
> >             -- Benjamin Franklin
> > -------------------------
> > Mandrake Linux 9.1
> > Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-6mdk
> > -------------------------


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