RE: VIA IDE performance under 2.6.0-test7/8?

[James Finnie]

> Does 'hdparm -a 512 /dev/hd?' help?
> --bartlomiej

Indeed it does, and -a 1024 is even better, but why the change?  Under
2.4.21, I only have a readahead value of 8 set, in fact hdparm barfs if you
try to set anything above 255!

Any ideas?

James.


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