copy and tar performance?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 15:40:23 UTC 2006


Jim Cornette wrote:
> Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the info.  How do I enable DMA on a SATA drive?
>>
>> Is your drive /dev/hda or /dev/sda? This could depend
>> upon settings in your BIOS.
>>
>> Try running hdparm on /dev/hda or /dev/sda and post
>> the result.
>>
>> Mogens
>>
> 
> Just a note for when the next Fedora release is out, IDE hard drives 
> will be referred to as /dev/sdx instead of /dev/hdx devices. If you use 
> devices instead of LABEL= to refer to your drives, get ready for editing.
> 

And if you use LABEL= to refer to your partitions, be aware that
moving them from one machine to anoher is likely to cause confusion
with duplicates that is difficult to fix.

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   Les Mikesell
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