[tech] New disk is in mussel

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:40:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > I've copied everything over to the new disk, the old 4Gb disk 
> > is still available on /mnt/old. We're using the 4Gb SCSI disk 
> > as the boot disk still (just for the boot sector) as the BIOS 
> > can't talk to a 120Gb IDE disk without being flashed.
> > 
> > The root partition is on the IDE disk though.
> > 
> > The huge amount of free space is mounted on /space, and should 
> > probably get /tmp style permissions at some point.
> > 
> > It gets relatively sucky performance (15Mb/sec reads, as opposed 
> > to the roughly 35Mb/sec reads I get at home) because of the IDE 
> > controller. We should put something nicer (ATA66 or 100) at some 
> > point.
> 
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> 
> .. I've forgotten the root password. Can you do a quick bit of
> hdparm magic to turn on dma and see whether the performance goes up?

We already did that, without it it was truly awful.