you might want to do hdparm -u1 /dev/hd<whateverdisk> Dave
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Rod Butcher wrote: > I'm running 2.6.7 kernel with low-latency patches for audio file processing. > It seems to me that when 2 separate apps are writing to the SATA hard disk > (e.g. copy contents from IDE CDRom and 56k internet file download) the CD file > copy slows to a crawl - i.e. the total time taken to write data is far more > than just the sum of the 2 processes). Is this a consequence of low-latency > patches ? > Internet download at 56k won't be writing very fast to the disk, and copy from > a CDROM on the separate IDE channel should only take a few seconds rather than > minutes for 650 meg. ??? > thanks > Rod > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
