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

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 16:22:59 EDT

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    On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 davej@suse.de wrote:

    > jeremy@goop.org wrote..
    >
    > > I reliably get 30MB/s with my IBM 30G 7200rpm ATA66 drive, using a
    > > Via VT82C586 controller. 2.4.0-test9. Modern drives are really fast.
    >
    > Hmm, I'm confused here.
    > VIA 586 can only do up to UDMA 2, which should return speeds less than
    > that. My system has an identical configuration, and I get ~12MB/s

    No the are the pci device ide but different guts. This is the ugliness
    that most never see.

    > Something doesn't add up here.
    > What mode do you have the drive in?
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Dave.
    >
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    Andre Hedrick
    The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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