Re: [gentoo-amd64] HDParm recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Francisco Perez
I guess I'll just leave it as is, its my office fileserver so its probably not to bright to be messing with it anyway :-D Frank Mark Knecht wrote: Right. Try sdparm instead: lightning ~ # sdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA ST3250823AS 3.03 Read write error recovery mode page: AWRE

Re: [gentoo-amd64] HDParm recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Right. Try sdparm instead: lightning ~ # sdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA ST3250823AS 3.03 Read write error recovery mode page: AWRE1 [ sav: 1] ARRE1 [ sav: 1] PER 0 [ sav: 0] Caching (SBC) mode page: WCE 1 [ sav: 1] RCD 0 [ s

Re: [gentoo-amd64] HDParm recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Francisco Perez
Well, it looks like I was able to answer my own question, apparently hdparm doesn't do much in the way of SATA tunning because of the driver the kernel now uses to run SATA is the SCSI driver. Frank Francisco Perez wrote: Can anyone point me to an article or some tips on my I should be setting

[gentoo-amd64] HDParm recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Francisco Perez
Can anyone point me to an article or some tips on my I should be setting in hdparm to tune my SATA setup to get some more thoroughput? I have 4 Seagate SATA drives plugged into an Escalade hardware Adapter running RAID 10. Here's what I am currently getting from HDParm: localhost ~ # hdparm