Subject: Re: New IDE controller.
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
From: Roine Thunberg <artee@garderoben.ath.cx>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/24/2002 06:38:21
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Richard Rauch wrote:

> I've had softdep in there before.  I didn't notice that it made any
> difference, as I recall.  Besides, the problems that I'm facing here are
> *drastic* (about 10 seeks per second according to bonnie++; yes, that's
> 10, the square root of 100, filesystem seeks per second).
>
> The number of seeks should be closer to 1000 or 1500 per second, I
> believe.
>
>
> Again, it *flies* in single-user mode.
>

dumb question... DMA?
but that shouln't matter if it runs better in single mode.


Roine Thunberg
artee@garderoben.ath.cx