Great IDE perf (WAS: Strange PMAC IDE performance)
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
bh40 at calva.net
Thu Jan 7 03:02:22 EST 1999
On Wed, Jan 6, 1999, Paul Mackerras <paulus at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>I found a register at 0xf3020200 on my powermac G3 which affects the
>speed of disk transfers. This is at offset 0x200 from the base
>address of the IDE interface and it is a 32-bit little-endian
>register. After booting Linux, it has 0x2f8526 in it, but under MacOS
>it has 0x211025. Putting 0x211025 in (with xmon) increased the speed
>reported by hdparm -tT /dev/hda from 1.89MB/s to 9.7MB/s ! The disk
>is a WDC 24300ACL (as reported by hdparm -i /dev/hda). The other
>hdparm settings were -d1 -u1 -m16.
I tried the manipulation with xmon on my wallstreet PowerBook, using
today's vger 2.2-pre4 and hdparam test jumped from 1.88Mb/s to 6.3MB/s
!!! (At first, I forgot to flush the caches, so I got 50Mb/s ;-)
Also, the register is replicated all the way from +0x200 to +0x3FF so it
looks like it's really a single register sitting there.
That's great !
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