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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 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3951 pages, LIFO batch:0 [ 4.338031] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 [...]

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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 you will probably want [...]

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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 [...]

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