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On Thursday 07 August 2003 00:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> it does seem that ide has gone bad.  Perhaps you can run `hdaprm -X udma2'
> or whatever the `-X' argument is to force it into UDMA2 mode.
>
> But the driver should have done that for itself.

I've done -X udma2 and it did a _massive_ performance drop.

root@lfs:/home/mb> hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.31 seconds =417.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.24 seconds = 19.73 MB/sec

"Timing buffered disk reads" is only as half as fast as without udma2.

I've made a new profile with udma2 enabled and appended it.

The system-performance while dd is way better now, but still not as
good as in 2.4
But for what price? Now I have a disk-speed like DMA-33. :) (on a
DMA-100 controller)

- -- 
Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft ]
Penguin on this machine:  Linux 2.6.0-test2 - i386

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