[linux-audio-user] Delta 66/new mobo question

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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:05:29AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Dave Phillips wrote:
> >Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >>Mark Knecht wrote:
> >><SNIP>
> >>

<snip>

> >
> >Best,
> >
> >dp
> >
> 
> 1394 hard drives work pretty well for me under both the 2.4 Planet 
> kernels and 2.6 Gentoo kernel. I have more trouble with CDRW/DVD drives 
> which do not work well under either in my experience. This is probably 
> not an issue for you. I do 1394 chips and software for a living so I try 
> a lot of this out on my company's nickle.
> 
> 1394 performance under Linux is not what it should/could be. The Linux 
> 1394 stack doesn't optimize gap count automatically so throughput is 
> slow. (Maybe 5-11MB/S?) I think there may be some little stand alone 
> apps that will allow you to set the gap count by hand which would help.

just skipped shortly through the archives and could'nt find anything on recommendations for 
external-harddisk Firewire/USB cases.

Can anybody give me a hint?
I'm looking out for a case, maybe both firewire and USB. 
Cheapest ones in the shop around the corner are 45 EUR.
So buying that and the HD separately seems reasonable.
But I guess they have a catch.

Any recommendations or docu welcome.

cheers, tobias.

> 
> Humm...I just remembered that I had my main Pro Tools 1394 audio drive 
> in my laptop bag so I plugged it in and ran hdparm to get some results. 
> Better than I thought:
> 
> root@flash ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda1
> 
> /dev/sda1:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   1640 MB in  2.00 seconds = 818.49 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   56 MB in  3.15 seconds =  17.75 MB/sec
> 
> Speeds are higher under Windows, but this isn't bad at all.
> 
> root@flash ~ # uname -a
> Linux flash 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 #3 Fri Aug 27 11:05:03 PDT 2004 i686 Mobile 
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> root@flash ~ #
> 
> I don't have a 2.4 series kernel here to test with. My laptop's chipset 
> doesn't work well under 2.4. Too new and many important things not 
> supported.
> 
> I don't remember how to extract the actual IDE drive parameters out of 
> this 1394 drive case. I think the drive is a 7200RPM but it could be 
> 5400. I don't remember and I'm sure anything you bought today would be 
> faster. I've used this one for 18-24 months at least. The drive is set 
> up with larger than normal (32K) cluster sizes and is a FAT drive so 
> that I can use with both Pro Tools and other OS's as required. (Heck - I 
> just did!) ;-)
> 
> From dmesg:
> 
> <SNIP>
> ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[413f0200b723013d]
> ip1394: $Rev: 1224 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ip1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
> eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
> ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[0001d20000030fc1]
> ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new 
> root node and resetting...
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
> sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
> ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
> ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
>   Vendor: WDC WD40  Model: 0BB-32CXA0        Rev:
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 06
> Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
> SCSI device sda: 78165360 512-byte hdwr sectors (40021 MB)
> sda: asking for cache data failed
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> root@flash ~ #
> <SNIP>
> 
> HTH,
> Mark

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