Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE-DMA strangeness (another one) | Date | Tue, 01 Dec 1998 18:38:57 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981201142123.178A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>, Rik va n Riel writes: +----- | I've just moved my IDE disks around, taking out an old | disk and moving my new 6.4GB disk from hdd to hda. | | With this move I saw in improvement (hdparm -t) from 3 | to 8.4 (!) MB/second... Now I wonder what kind of bug | in the Linux I/O subsystem could hold performance back | _that_ badly. +--->8
It might not be Linux's fault at all; ISTR that sometimes two IDE drives in a master-slave relationship don't work well together and you see that kind of slowdown as a result.
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