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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
To: tas@mindspring.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Strange PMAC IDE performance problem
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:01:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901060601.RAA00588@tango.anu.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901052239.JAA04790@tango.anu.edu.au> (message from Paul Mackerras on Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:39:13 +1100)


I found a register at 0xf3020200 on my powermac G3 which affects the
speed of disk transfers.  This is at offset 0x200 from the base
address of the IDE interface and it is a 32-bit little-endian
register.  After booting Linux, it has 0x2f8526 in it, but under MacOS
it has 0x211025.  Putting 0x211025 in (with xmon) increased the speed
reported by hdparm -tT /dev/hda from 1.89MB/s to 9.7MB/s !  The disk
is a WDC 24300ACL (as reported by hdparm -i /dev/hda).  The other
hdparm settings were -d1 -u1 -m16.

Paul.

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-06  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-05  8:52 Strange PMAC IDE performance problem Timothy A. Seufert
1999-01-05 11:33 ` Albrecht Dreß
1999-01-05 17:52   ` Marcus H. Mendenhall
1999-01-05 18:49   ` Timothy A. Seufert
1999-01-05 22:48     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-06  5:56       ` Dan Malek
1999-01-06  9:59         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-06  9:23       ` Albrecht Dreß
1999-01-06 10:02         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-06 23:22           ` Paul Mackerras
1999-01-07  9:11             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-05 22:39 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-01-06  6:01   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
1999-01-06 11:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-06 16:02     ` Great IDE perf (WAS: Strange PMAC IDE performance) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-07 11:12       ` Timothy A. Seufert
1999-01-07 11:32         ` Paul Mackerras
1999-01-07 18:59           ` Timothy A. Seufert
1999-01-07 11:59         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-07 18:59           ` Timothy A. Seufert
1999-01-07 20:15             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-08  2:06           ` Paul Mackerras
1999-01-08  3:30             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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