VA503+ Harddrive > 60GB Epilogue

Hey all,

Thanks for the advice. I went with the bios flash to JE4333; no
problems flashing, booted ok, accepted all old bios values and it
works great.

Installed the Maxtor 120GB UATA drive, partitioned and formatted
ext3. Ran some tests using hdparm (-t and -T)
"ibm" script:

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
t|T|-t|-T)
echo "Now testing read timing from buffers/disk of: "
echo " /dev/hda && /dev/hdb && /dev/hdc "
hdparm -T -t /dev/hda
hdparm -T -t /dev/hdb
hdparm -T -t /dev/hdc
;;
*)
hdparm -m16 -c1 -k1 /dev/hda
hdparm -m16 -c1 -k1 /dev/hdb
hdparm -m16 -c1 -k1 /dev/hdc
;;
esac

# mount
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[...]
/dev/hdc1 9.2G 17M 8.7G 1% /hdc/1
/dev/hdc5 46G 17M 44G 1% /hdc/5
/dev/hdc6 58G 17M 55G 1% /hdc/6

# ibm -t
Now testing read timing from buffers/disk of:
/dev/hda && /dev/hdb && /dev/hdc

/dev/hda: # IBM-DTTA-351680
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.57 seconds = 81.53 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.23 seconds = 12.24 MB/sec

/dev/hdb: # IBM-DTTA-351680
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.58 seconds = 81.01 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.27 seconds = 12.14 MB/sec

/dev/hdc: # Maxtor 6Y120P0
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.55 seconds = 82.58 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.16 seconds = 20.25 MB/sec

Looks like the winner on this board, though it could be the larger
cache built into the drive that gives the higher buffered disk read
speed.

Onto moving files and rebuilding links.

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