[mythtv-users] Hard Drive Performance

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Ryan Steffes wrote:

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> > That's why I had put them on seperate busses in the first place.  I
> > swapped the drives around, moving hdc to hdb, and got almost
> > identical results this morning.  I'll have to see later whether it
> > helps.  The main difference is now hdb shows udma5 as being enabled.
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> Well that's certainly a good thing. So does that mean you had a 40-
> conductor cable on the secondary IDE port ?
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> I don't, I had assumed it was due to the CDROM.
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I had thought that a CDROM drive on the same port would prevent UDMA  
mode as well, but Wander thinks otherwise. Now I *am* confused  
because your results would seem to bear out my initial impression.

Anyway, it's results that count, and if you are now running in UDMA5  
mode you should see an improvement.