Re: Hard Disk Performance

From: IanC (ian.nospam_at_intech.co.uk)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:34:54 +0100

"Bela Lubkin" <belal@sco.com> wrote in message
news:20040520112406.GV10272@sco.com...
> cut
> We inch closer...
>
> You need to trick the test it's using; which is easy:
>
> ISL_DEV=1 btldinstall /mnt
>
> This defeats a specific test in file /wd506/install/preinstall on the
> "wd BTLD"; it isn't any sort of general magic.
>
from an earlier posting
>Again, I think this will work but I haven't tested it. If you test it,
>please let me know (1) if you got it to link in, (2) if it booted, (3)
>if you saw any performance change.

.
Thanks Bela

I have now loaded the new driver.

I links OK

It boots OK

The backup job used to take 22 minutes.

It now takes 99 seconds - wow

This is on a fairly modern PC with a UDMA 7 drive. I expect that the
performance improvement will not be as great on earlier machines.

How 'safe' do you think it will be to use this on older machines ?

I will need to automate the installation in order to get it to 250 sites
without driving around with a floppy disk - any ideas?

Thanks again

IanC

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