Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 15:59:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is a 486 fast enough for SCSI? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950508154104.1416A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199505082202.PAA14965@ref.tfs.com>
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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > one other thing that should be mentionned is that it is possible > to DE_TUNE your filesystem so it will slow down.. > > try tunefs > and set you maxcontig to 64 and the seektime to 0 ms I used tunefs to change maxcontig from 2 to 64. There was no discernable difference. tunefs doesn't appear to be able to adjust seek time? > It also helps to tell newfs that you have only 1 head > but a LOT of sectors per track.. this defeats some code > that makes the wrong choices for SCSI type disks (and some IDE now) Tom
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