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
: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: odd behaviour with harddisk 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

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

odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Burkhard Ritter
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 full, although this is definitely not the fact. du and d