From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 17:34:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (pB5s09a03.client.global.net.uk [195.147.169.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BED15189 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from guru (guru.onsea.com [10.0.0.2]) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id UAA02768; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:40:50 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) From: "Cliff Rowley" To: Cc: "Jeremy Shaffner" , Subject: RE: Bad drivers? (fwd) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:41:04 -0000 Message-ID: <000201bf48cf$09ce2c00$0200000a@onsea.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <19991217174838.B46333@theatre.sax.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > With disks involved in your measurements or without? (Use a file that fits > in the memory cache, write it to /dev/null.) Could it be that you're using > some IDE disk without DMA? That's just it. It's exactly the same machine, and exactly the same drive that I've done the Windows -> Windows tests from, FreeBSD and Windows 95 dual booting on the same drive. It's a WD ATA33 drive, with DMA enabled etc. etc. It's not a particularly speedy drive by any means, but it's definately fast enough to keep up with the speed of a 100BaseTX connection... Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message