From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 21:39:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13643 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13616 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:38:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01289; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:01:35 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801220531.QAA01289@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kurt Olsen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big IDE drives (>8 GB) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:09:06 PDT." <199801220509.WAA07467@bootp.sls.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:01:32 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [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): > 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. \\