From: Álvaro A. Novo Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:11:09 -0600 Message-Id: <0012141811090A.11900@friedman> Subject: Re: [SLE] hdparm ? Bad transfer rate ? On Thursday 14 December 2000 18:03, W.D. McKinney wrote:

I seem to remember a command to speed up the HD I have. Running 7.0 and onlsy seeing 2.3megs a sec. transfer on the same IBM ATA-100 45gig drive ?

Was it a hdparm command ?

I do: 1) Pass to the kernel idebus=66 (actually I recompiled and don't need it, but the SuSE kernel has that option) 2) hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda ## -c1 is an alternative read man hdparm Still I SUGGEST that you read the man page My 66 drive achieves rates around 28MB/sec... but if I don't do 1) and do hdparm -c3 -m16 -X66 -d1 -u1 it drops to around 18MB/sec IIRC. Hope it helps, Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 -=- Kernel 2.2.17 -=- KDE 2.0.1 6:10pm up 4 days, 5:35, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00