On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 17:23, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:36:09PM -0500, Neal wrote: > > > What does hdparm without any switches report? > > > > Here's mine: > > > > hdparm /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > multcount = 16 (on) > > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > > using_dma = 1 (on) > > keepsettings = 0 (off) > > nowerr = 0 (off) > > readonly = 0 (off) > > readahead = 8 (on) > > geometry = 3739/255/63, sectors = 60074784, start = 0 > > busstate = 1 (on) > > Mine's identical, apart from the geometry (of course). >
Could this be a hardware or connecting cable problem? The transfer speeds you reported are far slower than what one might expect from a UDMA66 hard drive. My desktop has a Western Digital UDMA66 drive and a VIA 82C686A controller. hdparm reports: hdparm -tT /dev/hda2 /dev/hda2: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.15 seconds =111.30 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.64 seconds = 24.24 MB/sec It doesn't matter which partition is interrogated, the average reports are all about the same 24MB/sec +/- a few hundred K. -- Neal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
