Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-28 Thread csj
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 05:22, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 disk. > > It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should I be > > getting? > > > > nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -t -T /dev/hdb > > > > /dev/hdb: > > Timing

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Daryl Pawluk
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm expecting to get. Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. It

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote: > > Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 > > was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything > > that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an > > IDE controller.

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:53 pm, you wrote: > > Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 > > was giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything > > that'll let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an > > IDE controller.

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Dresser
> Yeah, it is a slow old K6 III 400 with some (320MB) PC100 in CAS3 (CAS2 was > giving me trouble). It's an old board, too. I don't have anything that'll > let me do ATA66, I think I'd need a new motherboard or to buy an IDE > controller. What chipset does this thing use? Is your kernel compile

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:22 pm, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 > > disk. It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should > > I be getting? > > > > Ouch. Get that DMA turned on. I've gotten 30+ meg per seco

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Dresser
> Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 disk. > It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should I be > getting? > > nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -t -T /dev/hdb > > /dev/hdb: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.09 seconds = 61.24 MB/sec >

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 27 September 2001 02:12 pm, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > > system. > > > > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > > expecting to get. > > Why are you ex

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear debian-user, > > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. i've played with this for at least 4 > hours now, and am coming to the realization that i definitely need help. goe

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > expecting to get. Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. It doesn't mean you can phy

HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear debian-user, i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. i've played with this for at least 4 hours now, and am coming to the realization that i definitely need help. my system: athlon 1.3GHz epox 8kha mobo with VIA