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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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