On Thursday 30 March 2006 08:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, have a sun workstation and decided to install debian etch on it, > everything goes fine, i installed 2 different kernels > linux-kernel-2.6.15-1-k7-smp and linux-kernel-2.6.15-1-686-smp, when > any of that kernel boots it hangs up several seconds during scsi probe, > kernel finds scsi host 0 controller ,after that drops to shell (busy > box shell) because kernel cannot find the sda1 (the root file system), > while im on the shell kernel finishesthe probe of scsi host controller > 2 and finds the sda, then i press ctrl+D to make the kernel to continue > boot seq. , everythig goes fine, the computer boots normally. there is > SunOS already installed on my workstation, i think SunOS uses linux > kernel and trace the probe of scsi host, see that SunOS kernel finds > both scsi host controllers in a second, the kernels without smp work > fine. how can i solve that problem? > also i am noticed that my scsi hardisk seem to be little slow for scsi > disks. > > hdparm -t /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 226 MB in 3.01 seconds = 75.09 MB/sec > > is it normal ? thanks.
Regarding the hdparm question, to measure more accurately the disk/system performance use bonnie++. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
