Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261606AbUANPkX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:40:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261731AbUANPkX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:40:23 -0500 Received: from smtp.ncy.finance-net.fr ([62.161.220.65]:10765 "EHLO smtp.ncy.finance-net.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261606AbUANPkT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:40:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:40:09 +0100 From: newbiz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031015 Debian/1.4-0jds2 X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: won't work: 2.6.0 && SiI 3112 SATA References: <20040106135634.A5825@beton.cybernet.src> <3FFACF9C.40001@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <3FFACF9C.40001@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 26 I finally tried siimage with 2.6 (2.6.1-mm2) and hdparm -tT gives about 55 MB/s (~ 20 with libata) I had understood that libata was better than siimage with non-seagate drives, and that both were as bad with seagate drives. Has libata been improved since this time ? Thanks -- Prakash K. Cheemplavam a ?crit le 06.01.2004 16:09: > >> Why is my drive (with 2.4.23 and libata2) on /dev/sda ? Why isn't >> it on /dev/hde, like (afaik) everybody else ? I'd like to run >> hdparm to improve performance (hdparm -tT gives ~ 20 Mb/s) > > I am not Jeff but, SATA is embedded SCSI infrastructure, thus you get > sda device. Performace is so bad because of workaround for Seagate > drives (max 15kb/transfer or alike). HDParm won't help you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/