> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Peltonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 6:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: UDMA and Linux
>
> What does "ATA 100M/s" then mean? Something else that hdparm
> -tT measures?
>
> I grabbed the ide-patch for 2.2.17, applied it and did make
> menuconfig. There
> are few new things that I see in "Block Devices" but nothing
> that would
> mention anything about ATA100 or ATA66. Am I missing something here?
>
> As the 2.4 is now out, what new does it bring to us on the
> IDE-
Jason Holland wrote:
>
> that does look a bit slow performance wise. I'm not 100% certain, but I
> don't think 2.2.17 is patched to take advantage of ata100. maybe try the
> ata100 patch from http://www.linux-ide.org.
I grabbed the ide-patch for 2.2.17, applied it and did make menuconfig. Ther
Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Slow? I don't now when you first used a computer, but from my perspective
> this is incredibly fast. I have got machines with 2 years old hard disks that
Well... My first PC was an 8086 with 512k RAM and a single floppy. I had so
much RAM that I even made a R
Hi again Peter,
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.07 seconds =119.63 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.39 seconds = 26.78 MB/sec
>
>
> 26,8 M/s sounds a bit slow to me... Is it?
Slow? I don't now when you first used a computer, but f
that does look a bit slow performance wise. I'm not 100% certain, but I
don't think 2.2.17 is patched to take advantage of ata100. maybe try the
ata100 patch from http://www.linux-ide.org.
Jason
>
> I have Intel's D815EEA mother board and IBM's Ultra ATA 100 hard disk.
>
> I've given the follo
