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Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/27/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB
>> per second...
>
> This seems more like the SATA-II interface speed of ~300MB/s...
>
>> Though t
On 11/27/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB
per second...
This seems more like the SATA-II interface speed of ~300MB/s...
Though the same one reported a read speed of about 900+
MB per second for my USB drive (no
Ken Gypen wrote:
I would assume that the two benchmark programs I am using to measure the
drive performance under windows go through windows, and thus the NTFS
interface. They are Dr. Hardware and FreshDiagnose. The second one
showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 28
I would assume that the two benchmark programs I am using to measure the
drive performance under windows go through windows, and thus the NTFS
interface. They are Dr. Hardware and FreshDiagnose. The second one
showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB
per second...
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Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/26/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well, in Gentoo, the results of "hdparm -t /dev/sda" were around 65 MB /
>> second. dmesg shows the drive in UDMA/133 mode, and I didn't bother
>> with lspci. In Windows
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Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/26/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I suspect that what I did in Linux turned off DMA for this drive, though
>> it could be something else. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.
>
> DMA is always enab
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Hi Aniruddha,
The output of:
# hdparm -d /dev/sda
(I assume you meant my hard drive - /dev/hda is my DVD RW drive)
is just the location of the drive, as follows:
/dev/sda:
Oh and thanks for the link, I will read it when I get a chance.
Regards,
On 11/26/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I suspect that what I did in Linux turned off DMA for this drive, though
it could be something else. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.
DMA is always enabled for SATA drives. There is nothing special
needed to enable it, although y
What is the output of:
# hdparm -d /dev/hda
Please check here for more tips and info:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance
grtz,
Aniruddha
On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:34, Chris Walters wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> My secondary computer recently got fried,
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Hello Everyone,
My secondary computer recently got fried, so I had to either rebuild my
first computer from scratch (almost), or just buy an off the shelf
model. Since I've been ill lately, I decided on option #2. I bought a
Gateway system with an
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