Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:27:41 +0200 | From | Julien Wajsberg <> | Subject | Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux? |
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On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote: > > How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done > with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA).
> Did you ever try to copy a large file in XP? Try it. > Try the same thing in linux on the same hardware. You don't need > a stop-watch. On Win-XP, a 10 megabyte file (hardly large) takes > about 10 seconds. That's 1 megabyte/second. Linux tries to be > a bit faster.
Usually, I only have Linux on any hardware I have ;) And there is no point comparing these things here...
-- Julien
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