From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 7:48:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (twinlark.arctic.org [208.44.199.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F2D37B48C for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14335 invoked by uid 1347); 27 Apr 2002 14:47:16 -0000 Date: 27 Apr 2002 14:47:16 -0000 Message-ID: <20020427144716.14334.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> From: atk2@arctic.org To: atk2@arctic.org, scott.mitchell@mail.com Subject: Re: checking hard disk -- hdparm like tool? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020427152617.B296@fishballoon.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did that -- and it does say dma -- but I think it is dma 2 (ata33). The drive is ata 133 and I was hoping for ata 100 (which freebsd supports). There is nothing in the var log messages or otherwise to indicate which dma mode it is in. I'm hoping to get ppp working tomorrow and then will do a cvs-update to get atacontrol (I'm running off of the 4.5 release cd's). Wish the info sysctrl/boot messages had more details. There is a dvd drive as slave -- and I was able to set it from the default pio mode to dma mode. I get about 2.5MB/S off the dvd and 10MB/S off the hard drive. However, if the dvd plays while the hard disk is active hard disk drops to about 200KB/S (thought as master it would stay near peak). Oh well... Alan ||From scott.mitchell@mail.com Sat Apr 27 07:26:20 2002 ||Do 'man ata' and read up on the various sysctl knobs for tuning ATA ||performance. Note that some of these can only be set at boot time, in ||/boot/loader.conf. ||DMA should be enabled by default for disks... you don't have it sharing a ||cable with a slow old CD drive or anything, do you? Also make sure that ||you're using good quality ATA-66 cables and check what's reported in the ||boot messages for your controller and drives. ||HTH, || Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message