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From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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>From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>

>> >Umm, let's see if I can fish out the install media from somewhere...
>> >jup, Solaris 2.6 5/98.
>> 
>> So did you compare Solaris performance with a 4 year old Linux?

>No, but you did the comparison with the most recent version of Solaris for
>me, only it was on IA-32. And the result is still the same, Linux wins hands
>down.


The differences are not big enough to prove this. I did use a slow old IDE
disk. As you see from my timings, the Solaris test results have been mainly 
caused by disk speed. 

J?rg

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