It seems Miklos Niedermayer wrote: > I think they are idle (looking at vmstat -i), but i can't be sure. > However i have 2 machines here with VIA 82C596 chipset... > > atapci0: <VIA 82C596 ATA66 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ad0: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > > 524288 bytes transferred in 0.025247 secs (20766367 bytes/sec) > > It's idle (the LED isn't blinking after/before dd and vmstat -i doesn't > show any ata0 activity). > > Even my Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller with the same disk performs better (a > little)...
Hmm, yes that looks somewhat on the low side... Well, two things, the older VIA chips are not the best performers, but I still think it should be better than that, I'll run some tests here, I might have messed up something... Are we talking -current or -stable here ? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
