Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:28:11 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: ECS K7S5A: IDE performance |
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:19:13PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > > I have an ECS K7S5A 3.1A. It works fine with 2.4.19. No > > > corruption. Now I tested it with hdparm and: > > > > > > hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.79 seconds =162.03 MB/sec > > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec > > > > > > Only 38.10 ? > > > > How do you mean, only 38.10? > > I just thought it'd be much more with an ATA100. I got more or > less the same with my earlier motherboard, an ASUS A7APro, and > without ATA66 - which would print a lot of CRC errors at boot > time if enabled in the BIOS. The K7S5A doesn't print any and is > rock solid. > > Maybe running it at 100/133 (and not 100/100) decreases > performance ? I read is somewhere. I have an Athlon 1000 (200) > with 2x256Mb DDR PC2100.
No. The limit is the drive platter read speed.
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