Re: odd behaviour with harddisk (fwd)

2002-11-22 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > no this seems to be right. > > > > df: > > /dev/hdb1 60039660 16909188 40127928 30% /mnt > > > I think i know what it is now :) > > I got so sidetracked it wasn't funny > > Tell me what a df

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Just curios, do you attach the (100GB+) disk to the mobo ide or do you > use an external (relative new ATA-xx) card? > > I wonder what the pci bridge etc can do in that old machines. Oh, and > how much load does diso io put in the cpu ? Direct to the m

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > Yes, slow cpu's and chips can cripple performance, I have many p120's here > with 100+ gig drives in them, that are limited to about 10 meg a second. Just curios, do you attach the (100GB+) disk to the mobo ide or do you use an external (relative new ATA-xx) card? I wonder what the pci brid

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk - ata100 vs rpm

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > i expect that the disk running at 5400rpm that is rated at 100MB/sec > will perform equally well as a a disk spinning at 7200rpm > ( less platters ? ) Why would it have less platters? The 5400 could have 80 gig/platter platters like the new MaxLine's from

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk - ata100 vs rpm

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > I think I see the confusion. You're getting disk media speed, and > interface speed confused. > > I could have a udma-4 drive with low density platters, at 5400 rpm, > compared to a 7200 udma-4 with 80 gig platters. > > The interface is

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk - heads

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya burkhard On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E > > > Config={ Fixed } > > > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 notice youo have 16 heads as shown in 16383/16/63 > fdisk: > Festplatte /dev/hdb: 255

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > no this seems to be right. > > df: > /dev/hdb1 60039660 16909188 40127928 30% /mnt > I think i know what it is now :) I got so sidetracked it wasn't funny Tell me what a df -i /dev/hdb1 looks like. I bet the third number is 0. Mike

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya burkhard > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > Hallo. > > > > > > > > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i /dev/hdb > > > > /dev/hdb: > > > > Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E > > Config={ Fixed } > > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 > >

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > -- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well > > >if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk > > >speed of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB or rated sata 160MB or rated scsi > > >speeds > > > - have not s

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > -- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well > >if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk > >speed of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB or rated sata 160MB or

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > -- any system ... no matter how fast/slow, is working well >if the ( buffered disk reads ) timing is at least 50% of the rated disk >speed of 66MB or 100MB or 133MB or rated sata 160MB or rated scsi >speeds > - have not see any system ac

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > it also says you're running in *mdma2 > > you should reset your disk to be ATA-100 ( hdparm -X69 ... ) > > Erm, on a "p130"?(i assume he meant either a p120 or 133) > > I wanna see a m

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > it also says you're running in *mdma2 > you should reset your disk to be ATA-100 ( hdparm -X69 ... ) Erm, on a "p130"?(i assume he meant either a p120 or 133) I wanna see a machine that can handle ata-100, when the ram barely moves at 30 meg a

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya burkhard On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > > > Hallo. > > > > > > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130. ... > spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i > /d

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130. > What does hdparm -i say about it? spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 B

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i /dev/hdb > > /dev/hdb: > > Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E > Config={ Fixed } > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 > BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, Mu

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > > Hallo. > > > > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130. > > It is not recognised by the bios in a rigt way, so I have not registered > > it there as it seems to work withou

RE: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Kahle
I had a similar problem with an old gateway P150 with a Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB drive. I had to flash the bios and then everything worked right. Still running Debian Woody as my file server. Good luck. Michael -Original Message- From: Burkhard Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tues

Re: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > Hallo. > > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130. > It is not recognised by the bios in a rigt way, so I have not registered > it there as it seems to work without. It does, the only problem is that it > claims it is