Re: ECS K7S5A: IDE performance

[Tomas Szepe]

> I have an ECS K7S5A 3.1A. It works fine with 2.4.19. No
> corruption. Now I tested it with hdparm and:
> 
> hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.79 seconds =162.03 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec
> 
> Only 38.10 ?

How do you mean, only 38.10?

> hdparm -i /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
> 
>  Model=MAXTOR 6L060J3, FwRev=A93.0500, SerialNo=663200252994
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1819kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
>  CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117266688
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
>  AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1:  1 2 3 4 5

Looks ok to me.

T.