From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 24 10:47:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BBE37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:47:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA67353; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:47:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:47:10 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Olivier Nicole'" , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Panic at setup time In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B4A@l04.research.kpn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > PS. Why on earth did you buy an ATA33 board? ATA66 costs nothing > extra these days, and with 128MB RAM you box is very likely to be > disk-bound. (Mine is) Most drives still can't transfer more than 33MB/sec (there are just a couple that can), so what would it matter? We were buying only 440BX based systems up until about a month ago, and they only had ATA33 interfaces. We've recently gotten in some i815 based boards with the ATA100 interfaces, and there is very little noticeable difference in disk access times. There is a slight benchmarkable difference, but I doubt you could tell there was a difference without using the benchmark. Once drives can transfer significantly more than 33MB/sec (and I'm talking tens of megabytes more, at least), then you might notice a significant difference without having to use a benchmark. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message