From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 20 01:01:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00170 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00163; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:01:27 GMT (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA18491; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <353B00D0.9A7A03F8@san.rr.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:01:20 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Burr CC: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best wdc0 flags ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Donald Burr wrote: > The best combination of flags is 0x80ff, this will turn on 32-bit > transfers and will do multi-block up to the maximum that is supported by > the drive. I tried those flags and noticed that it turned on 32-bit transfers for my wd0, resulting in a 20% increase in throughput. Out of curiosity, why aren't these flags included in GENERIC? Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message