[Soekris] Net5501: CS5536 IDE Driver doesn't work

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Horst" == Horst Ritter <Horst at Netzritter.de> writes:

Horst> Just a concluding question: I assume the use of HDPARM is
Horst> obsolete when using PATA/SATA. Is this correct? 

libata responds to the same knobs so hdparm still works.


Horst> The disk I/O stats seem to be reasonable:

Horst> hdparm -tT /dev/sda

Horst> /dev/sda:
Horst>   Timing cached reads: 382 MB in 2.00 seconds = 190.83 MB/sec
Horst>   Timing buffered disk reads: 90 MB in 3.03 seconds = 29.69
Horst>   MB/sec

That looks about right (ignoring for a moment that hdparm is a pretty
poor benchmark tool).

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering