[SOLVED]Low performace of SCSI writes.

Juan Piernas =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E1novas?= (piernas@ditec.um.es)
Wed, 12 May 1999 15:37:36 +0200

Peter Steiner wrote:
>
> >I have problems with a SCSI hard disk. The program Bonnie gives me this
> >results:
>
> Is the write cache of the hard disks enabled? And maybe you want to set
> the `queue modifier' to 1. That allows a more aggressive reordering of
> read/write requests. You can do that with `scsiinfo'.
>
> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/

Hi!.

The problem was that: the write cache of the hard disks was
disabled. Altought I don't understand why I have to enable
the write cache in SCSI disks and I haven't in IDE disks.

Bye.

-- 
Prof. Juan Piernas Cánovas
Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores
Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia
Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34-68-364633    Fax: +34-68-364151
email: piernas@ditec.um.es






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