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[linux-dvb] Re: DVB on mips/cobalt



On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:19:19PM +0000, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:02, Kieran Fulke wrote:
> 
> > I actually only did it to see if i could, and if it worked, but yeah, 
> > the disk I/O on that machine doesnt seem to be high enough to record 
> > directly to disk.
> 
> Perhaps something you'll already have tried, but give "hdparm -c 1 -d 1
> /dev/hda" a try? That might boost the IDE performance enough to record
> :)
> 
> gdh
> 

yeah, i use the flags "-d1 -c1 -a24 -m16 -X66" on the HD, it gives 
hdparm -Tt results of 40M (cache) and 8M (disk). i dont think qube2's 
were ever really designed for this sort of thing ... still. its good 
fun. ;)

Kieran

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