Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:28:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:28:33 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:50934 "EHLO zcars04f.ca.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:28:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3D6D2537.F410B52A@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:32:07 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= L.W.Meunier" <0@pervalidus.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ECS K7S5A: IDE performance References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 862 Lines: 20 Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > I just thought it'd be much more with an ATA100. I got more or > less the same with my earlier motherboard, an ASUS A7APro, and > without ATA66 - which would print a lot of CRC errors at boot > time if enabled in the BIOS. The K7S5A doesn't print any and is > rock solid. If you're reading more than the size of your on-drive buffer then you'll be limited by the speed at which the information can be grabbed off the drive--in your case, 38.1MB/s, which is quite good. ATA33/66/100/133 only makes a significant difference in speed when you're reading from the on-drive cache. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/