> Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata:
...
> -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
>ATA 64 3237 69.0 2913 14.0 1409 9.4 2951 59.3 3043 11.6 55.9 2.4
>WD 64 2556 54.5 2902 13.3 1457 9.7 1987 40.3 3082 13.2 59.1 2.0
>
> It may be worth testing with a larger file, freshly booted, with no X
> running.
or a newer disk:) i use to see much better performance -- say 5MB/s
even without DMA - on modern (say 3GB or greater) disks even on
133MHz machines. (on a PPro200 i think my 6.4GB IBM disk runs close
to 10MB/s...
cheers
luigi
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