From: Sean McGrath (sean at domain hdl.ie)
Date: Wed 19 May 1999 - 10:07:49 IST
Seening linux.com is now live, its got a tuneup page. One of
which is hdparam's (hard disk parameters).
So I tried it out on my server here.
Before: (dma and 32bit are turned off, i.e. default)
[root at domain portia:/var/log]#hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 2.39 seconds = 6.69 MB/sec
Turn on 32bit acccess:
[root at domain portia:/var/log]#hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
Now another test:
[root at domain portia:/var/log]#hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 0.34 seconds =47.06 MB/sec
[root at domain portia:/var/log]#hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 0.34 seconds =47.06 MB/sec
Anyone else seen this ? I can't do the same on another machine...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A, 2014MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA
Sean.
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(oh, yes, I'm keeping these settings...)
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