Hi, I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/466 card running with scsi drives. I am running woody with kernel 2.2.20. The drive is hooked up to the internal scsci bus which supposedly can do 10MB/sec transfers (I think I got the right specs; I do know that the external bus is half the speed of the internal). The drive in question is:
mesh: target 1 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM3200S Rev: 300X Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I have an application that writes a lot of data to disk and it is quite slow even slower than a PII (266) with 7200 rpm IDE drive. I ran hdparm on my PT Pro and got the following: /dev/sdc: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.33 seconds = 38.44 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 10.39 seconds = 6.16 MB/sec Is this kind of performance reasonable? If not, is there much I can do to tune the drive using hdparm? Would putting in an ide card and drive and tuning it yield higher performance? Is this type of question better suited to a different list? Thanks, John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
