Re: Strange hdparm behaviour with Via 686b and 2.4.2

2001-03-01 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:00:07AM -0700, Harold Oga wrote: > Hi Nicholas, >I don't see a similar slowdown on my system. I have an Athlon 900 with > a MSI K7T Pro-2a motherboard and a 15Gig Maxtor 31536H2 5400 ATA100 HD. > This motherboard is a KT133 board, but it does also have a 686B chip.

Re: Strange hdparm behaviour with Via 686b and 2.4.2

2001-03-01 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:49:59PM +0800, Mike Maravillo wrote: > I'm not sure if this one is related. This is on an AMD K6-2 450 > with MS-5187 board and VIA VT82C686A chipset... Should have add this in the last message. Almost exactly the same system same HDD, KT7 (with 686A) motherboard and

Re: Strange hdparm behaviour with Via 686b and 2.4.2

2001-03-01 Thread Mike Maravillo
I'm not sure if this one is related. This is on an AMD K6-2 450 with MS-5187 board and VIA VT82C686A chipset... # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hdc /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.16 seconds = 40.51 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 11.84 seconds = 5.41 MB/sec /d

Strange hdparm behaviour with Via 686b and 2.4.2

2001-02-28 Thread Nicholas Lee
[Please CC:, not subscribed] I've got a new Athlon 900 with Abit KT7A motherboard and a 20Gb Seagate ST320414A 7200 ATA100 HDD. I've been trying to figure out why my hdparm -t rates where so low. Then I stumbled across this: At this point dnetc (www.distributed.net client running RC5) is