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Your disk is only at UDMA 2? Either you have a very old disk or something is not set correctly in your BIOS. Note your low buffered disk read of 23.4 MB/sec. Not good.

This is more or less what I get for a USB2 disk which I'd never consider using for a main disk.

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Does that mean the hardware is UDMA2? Or is it a setting?

 

 

Here is another computer (a desktop, athlon 2500, newer computer) and again I really notice a slow hard drive. For example when I am downloading at high speeds, I can barely view a picture.

/dev/hda:
multcount    = 16 (on)
IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
using_dma    =  1 (on)
keepsettings =  0 (off)
readonly     =  0 (off)
readahead    = 256 (on)
geometry     = 59554/16/63, sectors = 60030432, start = 0

Model=Maxtor 93073H4, FwRev=BAC51KJ0, SerialNo=N4119ZVC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60028319
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0:

* signifies the current active mode

 

Yet again I have only UDMA2. Am I doing something wrong? I dont change anything on my mandriva 2006 installs. And as for hard drive speeds I never notice ANY problems in Windows...

 

Hanez

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