Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 disk performance

["Pierre Chopot" <pierre.chopot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

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On 21/06/2000 at 17:41 Smith Colin-WCCS07 wrote:

>Ran hdparm on the disk the other day.
>
>The default settings for the drive are fairly conservative, no 32bit I/O, no
>DMA etc, no multi block transfers. I was only getting 1.7Mb/s out of the
>drive. After enabling a couple of the features (most notably DMA) the
>performance increased to 2.8Mb/s. Not fantastic, but definitely better. Oh
>yeah, CPU utilisation dropped a bit as well.
>--
>Colin Smith
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Sound interesting. Would you mind sharing some recipes with us (less-knowledgeable-but-eager-to know-Qube-owner!)? I guess that warranty is dead for good after doing this, but anyway, mine is long gone so... :-). Also, I understand that there must be a file somewhere that describes how the Qube-Linux does access the hd but unless all Qube's are geared with the exact same hd (I have the 4.3 gb, model sold in France, I'would have to open it to know the brand), how do you know about the hd capabilities ? 
Thanks.

Pierre
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