[PlanetCCRMA] tuning disks with /dev/sda SCSI drives

Mark Knecht Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Fri Nov 12 09:26:02 2004


start with hdparm -tT to get some speed info. Look at interrupts also.
cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/irq/...

- Mark


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:44:04 -0800, Noah Garrett Wallach
<logic@enabled.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> there isnt a lot of detail for the drive in my box.  can somebody provide some
> clues about tuning this drive?
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> [root@dhcp-178-1-168-192 apt]# /sbin/hdparm /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  geometry     = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
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