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Subject: Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk
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On 29/10/2005, at 1:09, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

>> Hmm, that does sound as problems with that disk, or maybe disk vs
>> diskcontroller. Any chance you could try the disk on something else ?
>>
>
> I'll try...
>
>> One other thing, how much mem do you have in there ? more than 4G and
>> bounce buffering might get into the picture ruining the transfer =20
>> rate...
>>
>
> 2Gb right now. Does the 4Gb limit apply to amd64 as well?

Yes, the SiI3114 is a 32bit device..

S=F8ren Schmidt
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