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Date:      	Mon, 8 May 1995 15:59:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Is a 486 fast enough for SCSI?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950508154104.1416A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505082202.PAA14965@ref.tfs.com>

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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Julian Elischer wrote:

> one other thing that should be mentionned is that it is possible
> to DE_TUNE your filesystem so it will slow down..
> 
> try tunefs 
> and set you maxcontig to 64 and the seektime to 0 ms

  I used tunefs to change maxcontig from 2 to 64.  There was no 
discernable difference.  tunefs doesn't appear to be able to adjust seek 
time?

> It also helps to tell newfs that you have only 1 head
> but a LOT of sectors per track.. this defeats some code
> that makes the wrong choices for SCSI type disks (and some IDE now)


Tom



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