What do you get from a hdparm -t and -T testing of the drives?

/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda  or /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/sda

Jamin W. Collins

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Lazor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, please help


At 02:21 PM 11/2/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Might want to watch posting in HTML format.  Some of the list (justifiably)
>get a little cranky about it.

Sorry.  When I signed up, it prompted me for whether I want to receive my 
messages in plain text or html.  I figured people who don't want html would 
change their setting to plain text.

>As for your performance, you might want to check your HD settings with
>"/sbin/hdparm".  Unless you are using SCSI drives, you most likely don't
>have the drives running with DMA enabled.  This roughly doubled my transfer
>rates.

hmmm I'm running SCSI drives.  Ultra-Wide 2gig Baracudas.  Recommendations?

-Ed




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