[rescue] tape drive with no SCSI

[Phil Brutsche]

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 23:30, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Use "time hdparm -t" or whatever the test flag is.
> 
> Hmm.  Seems I don't have an hdparm command installed.  I'll have to look 
> into this.  

It's /usr/sbin/hdparm under Debian.

> However, it also seems to me that this is something that should just work 
> out of the box.  It is a standard 440bx chipset on a tyan mobo.

I would recommend running

	apt-get install hdparm

then

	hdparm -d1 -X66 <device>

where <device> is your hard drive.

It will speed things up tremendously, provided you have a ATA33 or
better hard drive installed and the drive is the only device on the
chain (if it's not the only device on the chain then all bets are off).

If you're using a 2.4.x kernel (or a 2.2 kernel with Andre Hedrick's IDE
patches) that won't be necessary.

> This sort of thing really hits my buttons about linux (and perhaps any 
> unixish OS I suppose).

I've had to do similar things to FreeBSD, NetBSD and Windows.  Unless
you configure the kernel to use the bus master IDE drivers for your IDE
chipset IDE will always be slow.

Just about the only OS/hardware combo that doesn't have that issue is
MacOS :(

-- 

Phil