Richard Watson <waty <at> bigpond.net.au> writes:
> Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as > opposed to hdb (slave). > Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'd make sure you read the man page on hdparm. Certain actions can kill hardware, permanently. That said, what I do is set the hdparms in /etc/conf.d/hdparm. I believe you can test each drive, note the best (safe) parameters to adjust. Test the adjustments, and then make an entry, per hard drive in the /etc/conf.d/hdparm. Here's what works for me on one system: all_args="-d1" hda_args="-d1 -u1 -c1 -a256" Remember, any device that is seen as a /dev/hd* will be affected by settings like [all_args="-d1"]...... If get lesser performance when (2) different drives are on the same (ide/ata/eide) controller, then try a second pci cotroller card. or if both are on the same cable, and the MB or controller has a second port, add a second cable and move one drive to the other port/cable. This sort of performance degradation should effect both drives. HTH James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
