Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:20:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> |
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote:
> > patches is ok, but I just want to know that I'm going to get more > > than 10M/s out of the drives, and not fry them. Those are my
It will not fry your drives, if your drives got fried, I want to know. I want serial numbers and the maker and when/where they were returned.
> > main concerns, but I'd just like to know what the average > > developer thinks of the idea of forking out cash for a highend > > system right now and wether or not it is worth it yet. > > I have been using a Asus K7M motherboard for a while, and I have nothing > but positive things to say about athlons. Both Linux 2.2.x and 2.4test > works perfectly (in 2.2.x I can't get the IDE drives above UDMA33 mode, > but my IDE drives does only about 24-25mB/s anyhows so it's not really a > concern)
You are doing Ultra-66 speeds my friend. The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s.
Sure I can get 100mB/s in ATA on an analizer as can SCSI do 160mB/s in that environment.
Not until media/platter densities get to 25MB/platter with 15K RPM drives will we see even disk IO approach 100mB/s.
I just wish people could understand that these are max-transfer rates and that drives do not exist that can run kind of IO in a sustained rate.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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