[gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB IDE Drive) I'm wondering if there are applica

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:24:38PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the > disks for better performance? There is a hdparm for SCSI, sdparm. Never tried it though. Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the > most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up > to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and > 24MB/s on a 7200 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?

2006-03-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 08:39 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the > > most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up > > to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (v