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How to check DMA mode on SATA

31-Oct-09

How to check DMA mode on SATA
dmesg |grep DMA
$ sudo dmesg |grep DMA
[ 0.000000] DMA 0×00000010 -> 0×00001000
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
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hdparm get/set SATA/ATA device parameters

31-Oct-09

hdparm – get/set SATA/ATA device parameters
Hdparm is a tool that allows you to set IDE device settings. This includes things such as DMA modes, transfer settings and various other settings that can help improve the speed of your hard disks and CDROMs. These settings are not enabled by default, so [...]

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Optimizing the EXT3 file system on Linux

31-Oct-09

Optimizing the EXT3 file system on Linux
There are some things you can do to give ext3 a boost when you just want speed.
Mount Options noatime,nodiratime
noatime
Do not update inode access times on this file system (e.g, for faster access on the news spool to speed up news servers).
nodiratime
Do not update directory inode access times on this [...]

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