Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

Thomas Deselaers (thomas@deselaers.de)
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:32:32 +0100

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:15:34PM +0300, Oleg Artamonov wrote:
> > leukertje:/home/thomasd# hdparm /dev/hdc
> >
> > /dev/hdc:
> > multcount = 16 (on)
> > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> ^^^
> 'hdparm -c1 /dev/hda' to enable 32-bit access - it will be much faster.

did this, but with no success, drive is not becoming faster:
leukertje:/home/thomasd# hdparm -c1 /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
leukertje:/home/thomasd# hdparm -t /dev/hdc

dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.62 seconds = 11.39 MB/sec

Thanks,
thomas

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