[vdr] Re: VDR recording problem

[Richard Scobie <r.scobie@clear.net.nz>]

Ryan Mak wrote:
> the 80 pin cable that came with the drive.
> my mobo supposively supports UDMA66 and I have an
> older drive as a master on the primary IDE and this
> drive as a master on the secondary IDE.
> > > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5
And indeed the asterisked entry shows the drive is using UDMA66.

I would try installing the drive as hdb - slave on the primary bus, and 
run hdparm -tT /dev/hdb, as something does not seem right, broken 
secondary channel or drive.

My humble Pentium 1 233 using a 60GB version of your drive achieves this 
 on a UDMA33 channel:

[root@tx rs]$ /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.64 seconds = 48.48 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.90 seconds = 22.07 MB/sec

Regards,

Richard