Re: Exceptionally fast IDE in 2.2.5-22 from RedHat

Frantisek Dufka (dufkaf@merit.cz)
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:03:58 +0200


Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> wrote :

> > Does the 2MB/s difference from hdparm test mean anything in a real-world situation ?
>
> no. hdparm -t has a standard deviation of around 30%.

Well I did the test few times (10 x or more) in a single-user mode, and my numbers are average values.
Maybe it wasn't clear from my posting, but I just took it for granted.

My main question was which patch in RedHat's kernel RPM caused the speedup.

Frantisek Dufka
dufka@prfnw.upol.cz

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