Thankyou Kindly Mr Civilme...:-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, 24 August 2001 2:26 PM To: Franki; NEWBIE Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard drive optimisation errors.. On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:18, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > In an effort to increase the speed of my hard drives, particularly the one > with the swap on it.. > > I did these hdparm commands: > > hdparm -a 8 -d 0 -r 0 -u 0 -m 32 -c 1 -A 1 -K 0 -P 0 -X 12 -W 1 -S 0 > /dev/hda > hdparm -a 8 -d 0 -r 0 -u 0 -m 32 -c 1 -A 1 -K 0 -P 0 -X 12 -W 1 -S 0 > /dev/hdb > > Nothing fancy, just PIO mode 4, 32bit i/o,, stuff like that.. > > > > MainBoard, Intel FX Ppro > Hard Disks.. > > hda Maxtor 84200A8 > > hdb Seagate ST51080A > > In the results, I got a couple of errors... Here they are... > > > > HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument > > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setprefetch) failed: Input/output error > > Here is the full results of the hdparm commands. > > > > /dev/hda: > setting fs readahead to 8 > setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1 > setting multcount to 32 > HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument > setting readonly to 0 (off) > setting unmaskirq to 0 (off) > setting using_dma to 0 (off) > setting drive keep features to 0 (off) > setting drive prefetch to 0 > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setprefetch) failed: Input/output error > setting xfermode to 12 (PIO flow control mode4) > setting drive read-lookahead to 1 (on) > setting drive write-caching to 1 (on) > setting standby to 0 (off) > multcount = 16 (on) > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > using_dma = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > > /dev/hdb: > setting fs readahead to 8 > setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1 > setting multcount to 32 > setting readonly to 0 (off) > setting unmaskirq to 0 (off) > setting using_dma to 0 (off) > setting drive keep features to 0 (off) > setting drive prefetch to 0 > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setprefetch) failed: Input/output error > setting xfermode to 12 (PIO flow control mode4) > setting drive read-lookahead to 1 (on) > setting drive write-caching to 1 (on) > setting standby to 0 (off) > multcount = 32 (on) > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > using_dma = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > > Can anyone tell me what they (the errors) mean?? > > > Also, can I get it any better with that hardware? > > > > rgds > > Frank the 32 on one drive was above the maximum multcount it would support hdparm -i /dev/hdx to get capabilities The prefetch setting is not supported by many drive/chipset combos, or it is set differently depending on zone density of data on the drive. So the errors mean you cannot do what you tried to with that set of commands, only most of it. It is not obvious that multcount set very high really helps--it is wise to step through a few settings and use hdparm -t three times at each one, paying attention only to the last of the three tests. Civileme ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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