copy and tar performance?

[Kevin Kempter]

On Thursday 28 December 2006 01:18, 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
>
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# hdparm /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 12161/255/63, sectors = 195371568, start = 0