Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:09:43 +0200 (CET) | From | Pierre Etchemaite <> | Subject | RE: ide/disk perf? |
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Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad A. Haque écrivait : > Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please > take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing > something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be > able to get more than ~4MB/sec off the HPT366 and a UDMA66 drive.
It could be unrelated, but I had problems several times with Maxtor drives recently; Their performances are usually high (some models give >20 Mb/s both reads and writes), but under some conditions that I couldn't narrow down yet, the read throughput is stuck to the floor (a few megabytes/sec) until next reboot. The write performance is always ok.
I don't think it's a chipset problem, with a box filled with several Maxtor drives and I observe the problem with some disk and not others at the same time.
I don't think it's a Linux problem either, since it can be observed with Windows benchmarking tools too.
As a side note, I usually get better results tweaking disks using kernel compiling options ("default to DMA", "autotune chipset", ...) than using hdparm -d1 and friends, give it a try.
-- Linux blade.workgroup 2.4.0-test10 #1 Sat Oct 28 18:00:09 CEST 2000 i686 unknown 1:09pm up 1 day, 19:01, 2 users, load average: 1.04, 1.08, 1.09
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