Step rate change (WD2010) Some

[root at spdyne.UUCP]

In article <947 at icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny at icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
> 
> Nada .. Oh well, for this long winded explanation, essentially you
> can't improve the seek performance by 20% ... In fact it might just
> be hindering it, but for 1 second differnce that could mean just about
> anything.   If someone has a better test for seeking, let me know, I'm
> willing to try this again under different stress test values ... 

    But it was an invalid test of seeking, it was testing track-to-track
times, which won't get any better...

    Try this: [I don't have the chip installed yet so I can't]

        dd if=/dev/swap of=/tmp/woof bs=512

Note: Do NOT use a large buffer - the idea is to make it seek a lot.
This way (w/512 bytes) it will seek there for every sector, the ideal solution
I would presume.  It should be easy to test this using the driver idea that
was just posted.


    -Chert Pellett
     root at spdyne