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From: Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Interrupt hick ups
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:27:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <394A6392.4C9FAAA0@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: v04220804b56f910f22ca@[10.0.0.42]


"Timothy A. Seufert" wrote:

> Have you made sure your HD is set up for DMA, etc.?  For example, do
> "hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -p4 /dev/hda" and then run the -t throughput
> test.  (Use the man pages to make sure those are sane options, that's
> all from memory.)
>
> I remember similar fluctuation in 2.2.x as automatic negotiation of
> DMA and so forth was first put in then taken out of the IDE driver.
>
> Also, to make sure buffers get flushed before a test (for repeatable
> results) you should do hdparm -Tt, not just hdparm -t.

Yes, I did all this, except the -d1 bit which doesn't do anything on my
old drive. The numbers I gave were the maximum I could get with any kind
of tweaking.

Anyway, I am not really complaining (there are far more serious bugs in
-ac16), I guess it was just something too nice to stay for real.

--
Martin

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-06-16 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-13 21:19 Interrupt hick ups Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-06-14 20:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-06-16  7:56   ` Martin Costabel
2000-06-16  8:12     ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-06-16  8:35       ` ide-speed was " Andreas Tobler
2000-06-16 17:27       ` Martin Costabel [this message]

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