Hi all,
Is it true that secondary IDE is slower than Primary? I have a brand new
Western Digital 120 GB 7200 RPM HD, and because I don't have a place on the
primary IDE, I unplug the (unused) CD-ROM and use the secondary IDE as the
harddrive connection.
I checked with "hdparm -tT" and the Timing buffered disk reads is horrible:
about 25 MB/sec. This is of course in linux single mode.
On my other machine, the same WD HD (80 GB) on primary IDE gives me almost
twice the troughput. I checked all options that can be enabled in hdparm to
be enabled (multcount, dma, 32-bit I/O) , so I ended up have all the same
options enabled for those 2 system, but the one with the HD in secondary IDE
has considerably slower I/O.
Anything that I might overlook? Any info is greatly appreciated.
RDB
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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