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

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 15:22:59 EST


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
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