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Well, it looks like I was able to answer my own question, apparently |
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hdparm doesn't do much in the way of SATA tunning because of the driver |
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the kernel now uses to run SATA is the SCSI driver. |
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Frank |
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Francisco Perez wrote: |
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> Can anyone point me to an article or some tips on my I should be setting |
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> in hdparm to tune my SATA setup to get some more thoroughput? I have 4 |
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> Seagate SATA drives plugged into an Escalade hardware Adapter running |
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> RAID 10. Here's what I am currently getting from HDParm: |
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> localhost ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda |
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> /dev/sda: |
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> Timing cached reads: 3244 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1621.90 MB/sec |
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> Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.04 seconds = 49.40 MB/sec |
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> localhost ~ # hdparm /dev/sda |
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> /dev/sda: |
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> readonly = 0 (off) |
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> readahead = 64 (on) |
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> geometry = 0/64/32, sectors = 500116226048, start = 0 |
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> I went through the man page, but its seems like everything there is |
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> geared towards IDE drives.(?) Or does it all apply to SATA? Thanks, I |
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> really appreciate it. :) |
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> Frank |
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