Re: IDE0 /dev/hda performance hit in 2217 on my HW - more info - maybe extended partitions

Andries Brouwer
2000-11-14T01:28:58Z

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:47:27PM -0800, LA Walsh wrote:

> Some further information in response to a private email, I did hdparm -ti
> under both
> 2216 and 2217 -- they are identical -- this may be something weird
> w/extended partitions...

What nonsense. There is nothing special with extended partitions.
Partitions influence the logical view on the disk, but not I/O.

(But the outer rim of a disk is faster than the inner side.)

Moreover, you report elapsed times
0:27, 0:22, 0:24, 0:28, 0:21, 0:24, 0:27
where is this performance hit?