On Wed, Mar 3, 1999, Sheldon Hearn put this into my mailbox:
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> On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:06:19 CST, Chris Costello wrote:
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> > After having CVSupped to the latest 4.0-CURRENT tree
> > (just now), I noticed the amazing speed of the new ATA driver.
>
> The amazing speed of the new ATA driver? Were you using 32 bit transfers
> and multi-sector IO with the older driver?
>
> I assumed from the benchmarks posted that I had no reason to feel
> alarmed about the fact that the new driver offered no tangible
> performance increase.
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> My understanding was that we'd "feel it" when DMA transfers were enabled
> for those drives that support them.
>
> Am I confused (yet again)?
Yes ;-)
I mean the time it takes to actually detect the drive. I
haven't really tested out the driver for actual
seek/read/write speed yet (but it might be a fun thing to try out
one of these days).
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
-Chris
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