ATA on the move.....Answer to SCSI 3wks back

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 00:44:28 EDT

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    FYI, and you can not repeat this at home yet.........

    File './Bonnie.321', size: 104857600, volumes: 1
    Writing with putc()...done
    Rewriting...done
    Writing intelligently...done
    Reading with getc()...done
    Reading intelligently...done
    Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
                  -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
                  -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
    Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
           1* 100 13796 59.7 19763 13.5 8375 9.9 6669 33.2 25810 16.1 217.2 1.6

    File './Bonnie.325', size: 268435456, volumes: 1
    Writing with putc()...done
    Rewriting...done
    Writing intelligently...done
    Reading with getc()...done
    Reading intelligently...done
    Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
                  -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
                  -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
    Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
           1* 256 14848 64.2 15999 10.4 7924 9.7 7372 36.4 25249 15.6 131.0 1.6

    hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hdc &
     hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hdc &

    64 MB in 3.77 seconds = 16.98 MB/sec
    64 MB in 3.78 seconds = 16.93 MB/sec
    64 MB in 3.80 seconds = 16.84 MB/sec
    64 MB in 3.81 seconds = 16.80 MB/sec
    -------------------------------------
    Sum of throughput 67.55 MB/sec

    hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hdc &
     hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hdc &
     hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hdc &
     hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hdc &

    64 MB in 6.79 seconds = 9.43 MB/sec
    64 MB in 6.82 seconds = 9.38 MB/sec
    64 MB in 6.85 seconds = 9.34 MB/sec
    64 MB in 6.82 seconds = 9.38 MB/sec
    64 MB in 6.76 seconds = 9.47 MB/sec
    64 MB in 6.80 seconds = 9.41 MB/sec
    64 MB in 7.93 seconds = 8.07 MB/sec
    64 MB in 7.14 seconds = 8.96 MB/sec
    -------------------------------------
    Sum of throughput 73.44 MB/sec

    Look out SCSI, I am going to catch up soon......

    Andre Hedrick
    The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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