[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up a SATA drive for performance

[agoats at compuserve.com]

PCI bus, ISA card.  I have a SATA DVD on the card as well, and it runs 
very fast, burning at up to 6x DVD speed. This is why I suspect the 
drive is not set up correctly.

Alvin




David Simmons wrote:
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>    1. Since you said this is a 'driver card' - what bus type is it? It
>       look
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> like PCI - so there may be alot of bus congestion/collusion going on.
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> I'd like to say, "Looks like ISA", but that would be cruel...grin....but
> would totally explain what's going on?
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> -dave
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> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM, agoats at compuserve.com <
> agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
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>> Ya'll,
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>> I picked up a SATA drive and driver card and in the process of setting up
>> and using it, I have some *PROFOUND* performance issues.
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>> from hdparm:
>> hdparm -tT  /dev/sda
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>> /dev/sda:
>> Timing cached reads:     2 MB in  2.24 seconds = 914.79 kB/sec
>> Timing buffered disk reads:    2 MB in  5.31 seconds = 385.49 kB/sec
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>> That's kinda sloooowwwww......
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>> So what I'm looking for is the correct chant to make that will boost
>> performance quite a bit. hdparm doesn't et anything and I haven't found
>> what sdparm chant I need to make to make things better.
>>
>> OS is Slackware 12.2.2,  kernel 2.6.27, so everything should work fine.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Alvin
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