From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 9: 0:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trot.galis.org (ool-18bd0cd9.dyn.optonline.net [24.189.12.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404A237B433 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gx@localhost) by trot.galis.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g31H2M624933; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:02:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:02:22 -0500 From: George Georgalis To: Kenneth Culver Cc: George Georgalis , Kevin Stevens , Nick Lozinsky , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE drive performance improvements Message-ID: <20020401120222.G23357@trot.haven.dom> References: <20020331142029.N8079@trot.haven.dom> <20020331231809.Y34760-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020331231809.Y34760-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:18:41PM -0500 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 re: using 80 wire cables, not sure. it's a sony laptop PCG505LS >> ad0: 19077MB [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 I did minimal experimentation under Linux but this line helped speed things up a lot hdparm -c3 -m16 /dev/hda I do a fair amount of disk thrashing stuff and don't recall any problems. Can I force faster settings under FreeBSD? // George On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:18:41PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote: >Are you using 80 wire cables? FreeBSD won't set it up in anything higher >than UDMA33 if you aren't. > >Ken > >On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, George Georgalis wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:55:13PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> >yeah, or just type dmesg, drive configuration will be at the end of a >> >dmesg command >> > >> >Ken >> > >> >On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Kevin Stevens wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> >> >> >> > No, the driver automatically enables the fastest modes and such. >> >> > >> >> > Ken >> >> >> >> And you can check in /var/run/dmesg.boot to see what mode got configured. >> >> >> >> KeS >> >> I've been wondering about this... and it doesn't look is if it was probed correctly... >> >> ad0: 19077MB [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 >> >> I set it faster under linux, what's up? >> >> // George >> >> >> -- >> GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 >> Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org >> File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george >> >> > -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message