At 2002-05-13T02:16:41Z, Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the > best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That just > doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux distro with > an ATA66 5400RPM drive that gets 40 MB/s without even tweaking anything. > > The only possibility I can thing of is that I never told the debian > installer what IDE controller I was using, and it is just loading a > generic. Is this possible? More likely is that your Debian box is reporting accurate transfer rates, while your other Linux box is spitting out rather wild numbers. 40MB/s? On a 5400RPM drive? That's not terribly likely, except in the situation where you're repeatedly reading the same blocks in many consecutive transaction. -- Kirk Strauser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
