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Subject: Re: speed of a ciss-based pseudo-disk
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> > Why is the reported speed only 135.168MB/s? All equipment is U320,
> > so I'd expect the nominal speed of 320MB/s...
 
> Just because a disk can communicate at Ultra320 doesn't mean that it
> can sustain data at that rate.

Yes, and the kernel would have no way of knowing the sustainable speed
anyway.

Which is all why I was inquiring about the _NOMINAL_ speed reported...

	-mi