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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:01:32 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Kurt Olsen <kurto@bootp.sls.usu.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Big IDE drives (>8 GB) 
Message-ID:  <199801220531.QAA01289@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:09:06 PDT." <199801220509.WAA07467@bootp.sls.usu.edu> 

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[Bigfoot-12]
> BTW, for a fat, slow drive it sure is fast (8 MB/sec reads, 9 MB/sec
> writes on this little 486/33.)
> 
> Any comments?

I don't think your disk benchmarking results are particularly 
believable.

> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT>
> wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

Particularly since you're not running in multisector or 32-bit mode.  
Perhaps you are out by a power of 10?  800-900k/sec sounds more 
reasonable.

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