From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJvq6-0005ob-JB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:28:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8QGKD6l027951; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:20:13 GMT Received: from nemesis.fprintf.net (nemesis.fprintf.net [66.134.112.218]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8QGKBxp004636 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:20:12 GMT Received: (qmail 17720 invoked by uid 210); 26 Sep 2005 12:34:26 -0400 Received: from 65.247.36.253 by nemesis (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1102. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:0(65.247.36.253):SA:0(-5.2/6.0):. Processed in 0.488979 secs); 26 Sep 2005 16:34:26 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.2 required=6.0 Received: from aa-wap1.nexthop.com (HELO ?172.16.100.223?) (dang@fprintf.net@65.247.36.253) by nemesis.fprintf.net with SMTP; 26 Sep 2005 12:34:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a 32-bit kernel on my 64-bit kernel Gentoo machine? From: Daniel Gryniewicz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b050926084528085842@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092519454117d3df@mail.gmail.com> <43380515.6040408@erols.com> <5bdc1c8b0509260759ea041b4@mail.gmail.com> <200509261726.14988.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <5bdc1c8b050926084528085842@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:20:17 -0400 Message-Id: <1127751617.12142.10.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e70776b5-5a38-4b19-9b63-11309fe1580a X-Archives-Hash: 486fb1d984318ee96f95749afaa1eb17 On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Only problem is these are SATA drives and they don't tell me much > compared to EIDE drives when using hdparm. Also their error messages > running hdparm are a bit of a concern, although typical from what I've > read. > > lightning ~ # hdparm /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 250059350016, start = 0 > lightning ~ # > lightning ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2040 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1018.12 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > Timing buffered disk reads: 198 MB in 3.02 seconds = 65.62 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > lightning ~ # > You might try sdparm. It doesn't give very much output on my SATA drive, but it's supposed to give more on others. Daniel -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list