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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:38:27 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, "Koster,     K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Olivier Nicole'" <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Panic at setup time 
Message-ID:  <34961.980379507@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:27:32 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101241620010.65986-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> 

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>I realize that getting the data in and out of the drive cache fast is
>a good thing, but right now, the bottlenecks lie elsewhere, and the
>lower bus transfer latencies won't even put a dent in the total
>latency when you figure all of the other much greater latencies that
>are part of a typical transaction.  IMHO, the ATA66 and especially the
>ATA100 interface was developed to play the marketing numbers game, 

For the record this "marketing numbers game" has a several
percent impact on my worldstones...

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