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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GD2vS-0003WP-Dt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:42:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7FHd0mN006539; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:39:00 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7FHY0Q0011060 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:34:00 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1553362wxc for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:33:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=MN+Z424m+ZbWQNrs5rpoKYrCT1w9IOVyhIY3agjm9wthCSxWhT+L4WOLMmy5KVKD5smipbwC8WxvZJnvQt5clSTunCTmMveXE0QI4H09J/o4O4GkyEkWDkSJl4ABFDADAemSeYpLl1yJVDpGpA6MAgzWYkydjTMNhBzzsXhuKhU= Received: by 10.70.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr12121195wxz; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.110.1 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640608151032g4da3f3d4i54180e7b47ffda0c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:32:17 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ? In-Reply-To: <20060815.192549.41171127.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060815.192549.41171127.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: a4e61ecd6a6a7cff X-Archives-Salt: 1c364781-742c-4563-868a-0f6b7faacc11 X-Archives-Hash: 7999fc2b0070fdd1207ca4f729371e7d On 8/15/06, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > since SATA does not support DMA I would be interested in other ways > to tune the SATA interface. Huh? SATA _does_ support DMA, and it is always enabled. > Does someone knows some working things to do for tuning the SATA > interface? If you have chosen the correct driver in the your kernel configuration, it is self-tuning. There is no more performance to be had generally. What problem are you trying to solve? What does "hdparm -Tt /dev/sda" actually report? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list