From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 07:51:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B543037B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5F943FA3 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6VEpF5I001063; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:51:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:51:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Buckie Message-ID: <20030731145115.GA57250@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200307311219.h6VCJLVG053962@spider.deepcore.dk> <1765441567.20030731171147@centrum.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1765441567.20030731171147@centrum.cz> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Soeren Schmidt Subject: Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:51:20 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 31), Buckie said: > Soeren, > > Heh, QNX in first RTP incarnations only had /dev/zero and I sort of > get used to it. > But nevermind. I've already tried large bsizes (1m and more) and > /dev/null too. But I can't really get past the 16Mb/s barrier... What I find fascinating is that Maxtor's site never actually tells you the true throughput of that disk anywhere. http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/desktop/diamondmax_plus_9/ -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com