https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3AHow_to_improve_harddisk_performance 2026-05-04T02:34:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.31.12 https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:How_to_improve_harddisk_performance&diff=33856&oldid=prev 2007-10-13T06:08:11Z

<p>Made comment on DMA - it&#039;s Ok</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:08, 13 October 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19" >Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Maybe hdparm is obsolete now? -- All the best, [[User:Nickj|Nickj]] 08:16, 1 September 2007 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Maybe hdparm is obsolete now? -- All the best, [[User:Nickj|Nickj]] 08:16, 1 September 2007 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I have the same experience on my R40, although I cannot set DMA mode with hdparm, the DVD still seems to work at a reasonable pace.&#160; This is with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy).&#160; </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[User:swerner|Simon]] Sat Oct 13 07:53:55 CEST 2007</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key c1thinkwiki:diff::1.12:old-32821:rev-33856 --> </table>

Swerner https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:How_to_improve_harddisk_performance&diff=32821&oldid=prev 2007-09-01T08:16:07Z

<p>Didn&#039;t work for me on Ubuntu 7.04, may be obsolete?</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>On Ubuntu 7.04, you have to use /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda, but when you do this it generates some warnings:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> root@T40-thinkpad:/home/user# hdparm -d1c1u1m16 /dev/sda<br /> <br /> /dev/sda:<br /> setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1<br /> HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument<br /> setting multcount to 16<br /> HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br /> setting unmaskirq to 1 (on)<br /> HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br /> setting using_dma to 1 (on)<br /> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br /> HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br /> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)<br /> root@T40-thinkpad:/home/user# <br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Maybe hdparm is obsolete now? -- All the best, [[User:Nickj|Nickj]] 08:16, 1 September 2007 (UTC)</div>

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