Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-10 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:49:06PM -0800, nate wrote: > Pigeon said: > > > Right, I've heard lots of people moaning about the RAID version. OK, > > thanks. > > > > When you say 'buggy', do you mean losing data at all? I've never had > > anything like that, it's just not very quick. > > > It's be

Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-09 Thread nate
Pigeon said: > Right, I've heard lots of people moaning about the RAID version. OK, > thanks. > > When you say 'buggy', do you mean losing data at all? I've never had > anything like that, it's just not very quick. It's been 3 years, so my experiences are not up to date :) but when I had problem

Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-09 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:00:44PM -0800, nate wrote: > Pigeon said: > > Hi, > > > > I have a 600MHz Celeron with VIA 82Cxxx chipset; /dev/hda is a > > Seagate 20Gb UDMA66 drive, partitioned /dev/hda1 FAT16 375Mb, > > /dev/hda2 FAT16 125Mb, /dev/hda3 swap 2Gb, /dev/hda4 ext2 17.5Gb. > > DMA transf

Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-09 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:04:11PM -0500, Neal wrote: > 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.

Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-08 Thread Neal
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=

Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-08 Thread Pigeon
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) > nowe

Re: hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-08 Thread nate
Pigeon said: > Hi, > > I have a 600MHz Celeron with VIA 82Cxxx chipset; /dev/hda is a > Seagate 20Gb UDMA66 drive, partitioned /dev/hda1 FAT16 375Mb, > /dev/hda2 FAT16 125Mb, /dev/hda3 swap 2Gb, /dev/hda4 ext2 17.5Gb. DMA transfers on these chipsets are very very buggy. I stopped using the onboard

hdparm: invalidate: busy buffer

2002-12-08 Thread Pigeon
Hi, I have a 600MHz Celeron with VIA 82Cxxx chipset; /dev/hda is a Seagate 20Gb UDMA66 drive, partitioned /dev/hda1 FAT16 375Mb, /dev/hda2 FAT16 125Mb, /dev/hda3 swap 2Gb, /dev/hda4 ext2 17.5Gb. Doing hdparm -Tt /dev/hda4 gives me a transfer speed around 10Mb/s for buffered disk reads, and a load