> No idea if this works on SATA, but there is an sdparm.
> http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
>
> --
> Archaic
>
Thanks. I've been playing with that. Actually some of hdparm still
works, the error messages are expected and apparently harmless. Sdparm
has no benchmark option. There are kernel
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:06:04PM +1000, David Lockwood wrote:
>
> Well that didn't take long. Hdparm is not for SATA at all.
No idea if this works on SATA, but there is an sdparm.
http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
--
Archaic
Want control, education, and security from your operating system
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:17 +, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Sounds more like 'insane' than 'dangerous' - ignoring possible kernel
> issues (it really doesn't expect normal IDE drives to go away, some
> kernels might accept it, others might not), there is the possibility of
> trashing the chips in t
> # hdparm -i /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> I'll be looking into this.
Well that didn't take long. Hdparm is not for SATA at all.
Interesting that hdparm -Tt /dev/sda still works. I wonder if it is
still meaningful. Keen to see if performa
> Of Ken Moffat
> I think this *might* be controlled by one of the SCSI
> transport options
> - there is some sort of deprecated option that conflicts with
> SATA, but I'm on a ppc at the moment and I can't see it.
I'd noticed this deprecated option ("conflicts with libata") but never
bother
> > alter /etc/fstab - everything else should be OK I think?
>
> Well, I could attempt to read your mind to determine what you are
> subconsciously worrying about, but I think I'll just say
> "yes" :) Oh, root= for your bootloader will need to refer to sdaX.
See - it was worth asking! I woul
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, David Lockwood wrote:
(i) is this a SATA drive ? If it is, you should be using libata
(under
SCSI) in the kernel, and /dev/sda.
This is something I'd been wondering about and is probably my real
problem. Yes this is a SATA drive and that's all I have. My other linux
di
Thanks for helpful replies.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> There is a *warning* on the HDParm page in BLFS that says:
> "Use with caution and make sure you know what you are doing."
> If you need to be asking the above questions to a support list,
> I'm not sure you qualify to the "make sure you know w
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brandin Creech wrote:
. I've also used the "deregester IDE channel" hdparm option before
and was able to unplug and swap out an IDE hard disk while the system was
running. Very cool (and also listed as "dangerous"). Yes, it is dangerous,
but I found it very instructive. If yo
--- David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i.e. dma wasn't turned on at all.
> So as a newbie I follow a few leads on hd optimising among the few
> options not listed as dangerous in man hdparm and settle on
> # hdparm -c 1 -X udma2
> and transfer rate increased to about 2.8MB/s.
hdparm -c
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, David Lockwood wrote:
>
> > Hi. Just starting to investigate the joys of hdparm. I was doing some
> > data shifting between partitions and noticed (using mc, runlevel 3)
> > that the data transfer rate was only about 1.5MB/s (copyi
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, David Lockwood wrote:
Hi. Just starting to investigate the joys of hdparm. I was doing some
data shifting between partitions and noticed (using mc, runlevel 3)
that the data transfer rate was only about 1.5MB/s (copying from an
ntfs partition to a reiserfs). Here's the output
David Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i.e. dma wasn't turned on at all.
> So as a newbie I follow a few leads on hd optimising among the few
> options not listed as dangerous in man hdparm and settle on
> # hdparm -c 1 -X udma2
> and transfer rate increased to about 2.8MB/s.
I have had thi
David Lockwood wrote these words on 12/06/05 06:26 CST:
> Hi. Just starting to investigate the joys of hdparm.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Just after this I got some corruption problems on my windows (ntfs)
> partition.
>
> Is there some
> obvious optimisation missing?
>
> Any idea why mine isn't wor
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