On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > Even if your drive can do UDMA33, it is only useful for transfers from > the drive's cache, since only they can reach that high transfer speed, > so that's where speed-ups come from, also this puts less strain on > your CPU.
If I understand what you're here and previously, even though I get 9.5MB/sec no matter how I set all the hdparm switches, some of the settings will deliver the same throughput at a lower CPU overhead? That would be interesting to measure, but what sort of test would do the job? Copying a huge huge file to /dev/null? I'd need to make a large file. I have 256MB ram and 512MB swap (hey - what else to do with a 27GB drive? ;-). ...RickM...
