On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:22 pm, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 > > disk. It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should > > I be getting? > > <snip stuff> > > Ouch. Get that DMA turned on. I've gotten 30+ meg per second on Fireball > AS's, and slightly lower on LM's. Is your cpu an old pentium 233 or > something? The buffer-cache reads seems rather low, indicating the memory > is slow, which could mean an old slow machine, to me.
Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an IDE controller. > Once you get that DMA turned on, ( -d1 ) i bet your speeds will go way up. > If that's a 30gb Fireball LM or AS, it's not ATA33, even the LM's were > ATA66, the AS ATA100. I'll have to give that a shot... I guess I'll just have it do that on startup if it works? > Mike
