Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE-DMA strangeness (another one) | From | Mark Gray <> | Date | 01 Dec 1998 15:32:10 -0500 |
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Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:
> > Hi, > > I've just moved my IDE disks around, taking out an old > disk and moving my new 6.4GB disk from hdd to hda. > > With this move I saw in improvement (hdparm -t) from 3 > to 8.4 (!) MB/second... Now I wonder what kind of bug > in the Linux I/O subsystem could hold performance back > _that_ badly. > Of course both benchmarks were done on a completely > unloaded IDE chip/PCI bus...
Some motherboards use a crippled controller for ide1 in the belief that it will only be used for cdroms.
> cheers, > > Rik -- now completely used to dvorak kbd layout...
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