Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 20:31:32 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Disk Performance |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ben Israel wrote:
> Why does my 40 Megabyte per second IDE drive, transfer files at best > at 1-2 Megabytes per second?
Sounds like you're not using IDE DMA:
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
(not enabled by default because it corrupts data with some old chipsets and/or disks)
regards,
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