On Fri, 19 May 2000, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
> >
> > I've got a couple of 533 MHz machines with the SuperMicro PIIIDME board
> > and
> > here is the output from hdparm -t. There is a cheetah drive
> > and a SCSI-3 controller, which, although not technically relevant, do
> > show
> > the potential of the chipset. Note that, for example, with the same
> > SCSI
> > card and disks, I get 13 MB/sec with a 566 MHz alpha. This is the first
> > time
> > I've found an Intel chip to have faster I/O than an alpha.
> >
> > [root@scylla /root]# hdparm -t /dev/sda
> >
> > /dev/sda:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.92 seconds =21.92 MB/sec
>
> I have the same mobo... (Dual PII 733)
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.22 seconds =15.17 MB/sec
>
> However... I'm on IDE so I'd expect it to be a bit slower...
Why?
hdparm -t /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.12 seconds = 30.19 MB/sec
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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