From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 1 7:41:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B66A37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from oddjob.trewitt.org (adsl-216-102-95-11.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.95.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D4D43F43 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:41:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glenn@trewitt.org) Received: from trewitt.org (adsl-64-168-27-34.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.168.27.34]) by oddjob.trewitt.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h11Ff9Yd060953; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glenn@trewitt.org) Message-ID: <3E3BEACD.44B7B096@trewitt.org> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:42:05 -0800 From: Glenn Trewitt Reply-To: glenn@trewitt.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Timme Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200301311856.59367.timothy@voidnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Timme wrote: > I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant > me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, and if so, > how hard it'd be to get the motherboard to utilize harddrives connected up to > said controller card? I've done exactly the same thing on a couple of old PII-400 systems that I have (just going up to ata66, disk-limited) and it made a significant difference. For example, the loader's "spinner" is now a blur. Not very scientific, but it feels a lot faster. I think that the difference between ata33 and ata66 or 100 will be very noticable. Obviously, moving up from ata66 or ata100 will be much less dramatic - you've already used up the factor of 2- or 3-X once you get away from ata33. - Glenn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message