Re: [squid-users] IDE HardDisk

why don't you use hdparm to speed up the IDE disk? if you have a *new* ide
disk, you could get a very higher performance if you uses this software.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Mark Tinka wrote:

> you can actually use an IDE hard disk and get some
> good speeds, even comparable to SCSI disks.. it's all
> in the disk driver... what u will need is 80-pin UDMA
> cable, and a hard disk that supports UDMA [Ultra
> Direct Memory Access].. and most importantly, u will
> need some IDE controllers that can support UDMA... up
> to at least mode 4, which can take you up to 133Mbps
> transfer rate.. u can get these kinds of speeds, but u
> will need to have some kind of mini-port driver that
> will talk to your computer's chipset...
>
> once u have this, you system will, at times, pick up
> the disk as a SCSI disk..
>
> good luck..
>
> AKNIT
>
>
> --- jhorton@equiinet.com wrote: > I use an ide disk -
> however - it will be slow! - try
> > keeping cache size
> > low (I find on my box p400 that around 100Mb works
> > well) - try using
> > cache_dir params of L1=16 and L2=128
> > good luck!
> > ps.
> > I have never tried it - but using a ramdisk may be a
> > better solution if
> > you can afford the ram - use a cron job to save
> > everything to disk
> > periodically?!
> >
> > nobody nogroup wrote:
> >
> > it is possible for me to use non-scsi harddisk to
> > run squid ?
> > and how to configure it that can make my squid
> > running well.
> >
> > regards
> > Eko Nurhadi
> >
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