On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote: > > 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. > > What chipset does this thing use? Is your kernel compiled to support it? > > > I'll have to give that a shot... I guess I'll just have it do that on > > startup if it works? > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda, and then go -Tt it again. Should show a difference, > if the -d1 is allowed
It is interesting to note that turning DMA on on /dev/hda didn't result in any performance gain at all. It's an old Quatum BigFoot from 1998. 6GB disk. Heh, sadly it's also my primary disk (silly, I know) and hdb seldom is used, so having 14MB/s on that is nice, but probably won't help me much day to day. I guess I could swap the disks... One of these days... > Mike
