Re: i840 stuff

From: Lawrence MacIntyre (lpz@y12.doe.gov)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 12:36:33 EDT

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    I've got a couple of 533 MHz machines with the SuperMicro PIIIDME board
    and
    here is the output from hdparm -t. There is a cheetah drive
    and a SCSI-3 controller, which, although not technically relevant, do
    show
    the potential of the chipset. Note that, for example, with the same
    SCSI
    card and disks, I get 13 MB/sec with a 566 MHz alpha. This is the first
    time
    I've found an Intel chip to have faster I/O than an alpha.

    [root@scylla /root]# hdparm -t /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
     Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.92 seconds =21.92 MB/sec

    Tony Hoyle wrote:
    >
    > ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
    > >
    > > I had posted some info to the linux-smp mailing list about a Supermicro
    > > SMP board with the i840 chipset, but I think my mail didn't get through.
    > >
    > > I do know that hdparm reported the two hard drives in the machine I was
    > > testing to be using udma mode 4 (udma66 IIRC)
    > >
    > Are you sure... hdparm on my board states that the drives are capable of udma mode 4, but
    > that they are not running it. If I use hdparm -X (yes I know very dangerous) I get the
    > error 'udma mode 3/4 not suppported'
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