Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 15:49:42 EDT

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    On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, safemode wrote:

    >
    >
    > That's what i was thinking, but 30MB/s seems to be quite an exaggeration.
    > On my
    > Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), ide chipset my master (10.2GB

    Yes because that chipset is limited to Ultra33 rates

    > maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66) drive i get ~15-16MB/s and on my slave (same
    > interface, 20.1GB maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66), i get ~13MB/s. This goes against
    > logic as the bigger the drive the faster the transferrate should be, and
    > it's about half of your estimate of Michael's 40GB. Is this due to the
    > slow disk access of 2.4.0-test10-preX ? Or am i experiencing a bug here?

    There is something goofy in the block layer.
     
    > Both drives are operating at UDMA33 mode (according to hdparm) and both
    > drives are set to using 32bit, dma, 16 sector read ahead and 16 sector
    > multi-access mode. I've posted results i've gotten from bonnie and
    > bonnie++ before, in all cases, the performance seems to be lacking for the
    > kind of hardware i have.

    You go through a buffered OS.

    >
    > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:58:41 Andre Hedrick wrote:
    > >
    > > Michael,
    > >
    > > Whatever card you are using, in you are getting that low I need to know
    > > more info. That drive should cook at 30MB/sec.
    >
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    Andre Hedrick
    The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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