[ltp] hdparm for tp770z?

[Bob Koss]

Fabrice Bellet <Fabrice.Bellet@creatis.insa-lyon.fr> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 10:40:18AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone come up with a good set of options for hdparm for a 770z ?
> > 
> > VMWare disk access is very sluggish.
> 
> I use this commandline (770Z too):
> /sbin/hdparm -u1 -W1 -c1 -m16 -d1 -S6 -A1 -K1 -k1 /dev/hda
> 
> The important option seems to be '-c1' to enable 32-bit I/O support.
> 
> With these options, I obtain the following timings :
> # hdparm -t /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  6.53 seconds =  9.80 MB/sec
> 


I didn't use -A1 -K1 -k1, but used the other options and my timing is
similar. Still, VMWare is almost unusable for anything that accesses
the disk.



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