03-24-2009
As already explained hdparm is for IDE disks. You can't enable IDE DMA on a disk or driver that's not IDE. It does seem to be able to do benchmarks though, which shows your disk running at rather good speeds indeed.
What really ruins disk performance is random seeking. Every time the head moves the disk has to wait and do nothing until its ready. Could your program be made to process data sequentially instead of seeking all over the place in the file?
Another thing you could do is add more memory. More of the file will be able to stay in cache, which will increase performance a lot.
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pdcide
PDCIDE(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual PDCIDE(4)
NAME
pdcide -- Promise IDE disk controllers driver
SYNOPSIS
pdcide* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000
DESCRIPTION
The pdcide driver supports the Promise Ultra33, Ultra66, Ultra100, Ultra100TX2, Ultra100TX2v2, Ultra133, Ultra133TX2, Ultra133TX2v2, Fast-
trak133 and Serial ATA/150 IDE controllers, and provides the interface with the hardware for the ata(4) driver.
The 0x0002 flag forces the pdcide driver to disable DMA on chipsets for which DMA would normally be enabled. This can be used as a debugging
aid, or to work around problems where the IDE controller is wired up to the system incorrectly.
SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4)
BUGS
The timings used for the PIO and DMA modes for controllers listed above are for a PCI bus running at 30 or 33 MHz. This driver may not work
properly on overclocked systems.
The pdcide driver does NOT function correctly on NetBSD/sparc64.
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