On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote:
> I tried hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX and I got a significant reduction in
> performance:
>
> Maxtor: 28mb/sec to 15 mb/sec
> WD: 22mb/sec to 20 mb/sec
>
> So, I guess I will just leave the dma setting off (???).
With 28MB/s dma is definitly turned on.
--- bobby dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Both drives say that they are capable of the
> following:
>
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3
> *udma4
>
> I am supposing the star means that the drive is set
> to udma4, correct?
If you used "hdparm -I" then you get the info
--- bobby dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX and I got a
> significant reduction in
> performance:
>
> Maxtor: 28mb/sec to 15 mb/sec
> WD: 22mb/sec to 20 mb/sec
>
> So, I guess I will just leave the dma setting off
> (???).
What that means is that probably
Ok Ok but how do you test the speeds of your drives?
My drive supports
Model=Maxtor 92720U8, FwRev=MA540RR0, SerialNo=C803RN7C
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, Cu
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Did you do it specifiying both flags at the same time?
What -Xxx value did you use?
First query your drive with "hdparm -i /dev/hda" to
see what modes your drive support.
>From the hdparm man page:
...
-X Set the IDE transfer mode for newer
(E)IDE/ATA2
drives. Th
Are you specifiying the two flags at the same time in
the same command? If not, you have to.
What drives do you have?
The controller mode may also have to be set, most
don't. With my Promise U66 I don't have to.
--- "B. K. Barley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have reported the same problem ev
Nope, this are just MFG. ID strings being read by the
kernel from the devices.
--- bobby dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What if you see this at boot-up:
>
> HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
> PCI: HPT366: Fixing interrupt 11 pin 2 to ZERO
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bu
)
Doesn't this mean that Dma is already turned on?
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"bobby dowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you mean the -d flag without the -X flags?
>
> So, you can say -dX and those WD drives that froze the system before would
> work?
nope, froze anyway here :(
Hello Pixel,
On 19 Jun 2000 11:12:38 +0200 GMT your local time,
which was Monday, June 19, 2000, 4:12:38 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Pixel wrote:
> "bobby dowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What do you mean the -d flag without the -X flags?
>>
>> So, you can say -dX and those WD drives t
"bobby dowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you mean the -d flag without the -X flags?
>
> So, you can say -dX and those WD drives that froze the system before would
> work?
nope, froze anyway here :(
Hi,
> Nooo! For UltraDMA2 on your fisrst ide drive, it would
> be something like this (for an explanation of the
> number after the -X, see the man page of hdparm):
I noticed Webmin in 7.1 has a nice section for setting and
testing hdparm, it's under Hardware > Partitions on Local Disks > Edi
--- bobby dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you mean the -d flag without the -X flags?
>
> So, you can say -dX and those WD drives that froze
> the system before would
> work?
Nooo! For UltraDMA2 on your fisrst ide drive, it would
be something like this (for an explanation of the
nu
ean the -d flag without the -X flags?
>
> So, you can say -dX and those WD drives that froze the system before would
> work?
>
>
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What do you mean the -d flag without the -X flags?
So, you can say -dX and those WD drives that froze the system before would
work?
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>Date: 18 Ju
Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just comment out the optimization code in the file
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime", and put in your
> own optimization string, so that part of the file
> looks like this (*note, I have posted here before that
> the some Western Digital drives han
Just comment out the optimization code in the file
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime", and put in your
own optimization string, so that part of the file
looks like this (*note, I have posted here before that
the some Western Digital drives hang the machine if
you use the -d without the -X flags
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