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Jerri
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Joined: 03 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:50 am Post subject: welcome, all ancient hardware enthusiasts |
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Well, not super ancient, but a touch behind the bleeding edge...
I'm trying to build a makeshift server out of old parts... and I have run into a bit of a performance road block.
parts in question:
p133
old mobo, can't even tell which manufacture.
old IBM 1.7 GB harddisk (1996).
hdparm -tT reveals:
| Code: | /dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 136 MB in 2.04 seconds = 66.67 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 14 MB in 3.13 seconds = 4.47 MB/sec |
Now, I'm not sure if this is to be expected.. but it seems a touch slow.
Anyways, so I thought things might improve if I could only figure out which hdd controller to compile into the kernel. I haven't a clue what it is. Close inspection of the motherboard doesn't reveal anything, and dmesg and bios are about as useless.
So I wonder if any of you ancient hardware enthusiasts have some ideas about figuring out which hdd controller i might have.
South bridge has a few things sketched onto it:
| Code: | Intel
PCIset
FW82439tx
F7200014
SL238
Intel '96 |
Ideas are most welcome |
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desertstalker
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Joined: 18 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:35 am Post subject: |
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Try using hdparm to set dma to on
| Quote: | | hdparm -d1 /dev/hda |
does lspci give any hints? |
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Jerri
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks dude, lspci did it :) |
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