Re: [squid-users] IDE HardDisk

I have used hdparm on ide disks - but although the byte transfers can be
2 - 3 times as fast, the block transfers are (in my experience) often
only increased by a very small amount - however - it is possible that my
bonnie testing was at fault!

Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior wrote:

why don't you use hdparm to speed up the IDE disk? if you have a *new* ide
disk, you could get a very higher performance if you uses this software.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Mark Tinka wrote:

>you can actually use an IDE hard disk and get some
>good speeds, even comparable to SCSI disks.. it's all
>in the disk driver... what u will need is 80-pin UDMA
>cable, and a hard disk that supports UDMA [Ultra
>Direct Memory Access].. and most importantly, u will
>need some IDE controllers that can support UDMA... up
>to at least mode 4, which can take you up to 133Mbps
>transfer rate.. u can get these kinds of speeds, but u
>will need to have some kind of mini-port driver that
>will talk to your computer's chipset...
>
>once u have this, you system will, at times, pick up
>the disk as a SCSI disk..
>
>good luck..
>
>AKNIT
>
>
>--- jhorton@equiinet.com wrote: > I use an ide disk -
>however - it will be slow! - try
>
>>keeping cache size
>>low (I find on my box p400 that around 100Mb works
>>well) - try using
>>cache_dir params of L1=16 and L2=128
>>good luck!
>>ps.
>>I have never tried it - but using a ramdisk may be a
>>better solution if
>>you can afford the ram - use a cron job to save
>>everything to disk
>>periodically?!
>>
>>nobody nogroup wrote:
>>
>>it is possible for me to use non-scsi harddisk to
>>run squid ?
>>and how to configure it that can make my squid
>>running well.
>>
>>regards
>>Eko Nurhadi
>>
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Received on Tue Jan 29 2002 - 05:32:15 MST