At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:23:32 +0200,
martin f krafft wrote:
>
> hdparm can make the difference between an IDE harddrive and
> something connected to the IDE bus which is about as fast as if
> I'd type the bits by hand. I am down with that, and my IDE
> drives are at paramount speeds.
>
> I also have an IDE drive in a special bracket that connects via
> the USB bus and usb-storage makes it available through ide-scsi
> as sdx. Performance is horrid!
>
> piper:/transfer> sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 72.58 seconds =902.95 kB/sec
>
> But I can't fix that:
>
> piper:/transfer> sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> operation not supported on SCSI disks
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
Have you tried the cat > /proc trick, something like:
cat using_dma:1 > /proc/ide/hdX/settings
This works for my ide-scsi DVD-ROM drive. Then again maybe what
you need is the "scsitools" package:
Description: Collection of tools for SCSI hardware management
This package is a collection of tools for manipulating SCSI
hardware:
scsiinfo: displays SCSI drive low-level information and
modifies SCSI drive settings,
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