On Mon, 1999-03-01 at 00:29, Barsalou wrote:
> Are there some reasonably simple steps I could take to better tune my HD
> performance.
>
> In the first place, I am getting a kernel message that says something
> like...your bus is running at 33mHz use idebus= to fix it.
>
> Is that all I would have to do? Seems simple enough.
>
> Mike
These are the 'default' setings hdparm set for my IDE drive. DMA makes
the biggest difference.
#hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
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