From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 26 21:40:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AA315593 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA23770; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:40:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip-83-087.prc.primenet.com(207.218.83.87), claiming to be "pinyon.org" via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAASvaixU; Wed Jan 26 22:39:50 2000 Received: from chomsky.Pinyon.ORG (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCE745; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:39:39 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIC SD-11 not happy with ata In-Reply-To: Message from "Rodney W. Grimes" of "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:37:43 PST." <200001190537.VAA50862@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:39:39 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-Id: <20000127053939.5BCE745@pinyon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG %> %It seems Russell L. Carter wrote: %> %> %It seems Russell L. Carter wrote: %> %> %> %> %> %> I swapped out my motherboard and am seeing this now: %... % %> %> )(*&$#%$# stupid magazine benchmarkers never actually test %> things like IO... grrrrr.... % %We in the computer hardware business have a better name for ``FIC'', %Fix It Continuously. They are not known for their quality, or should %I say they are known for their lack of quality :-). Yah... as before ok I fixed this by swapping in an ASUS K7M (forget the audio, I can't figure that one out) For all of the bitching on Soren's ata driver, I'd like to make this observation on a 500MHz/256MB ASUS K7 systemm, bonnie -s 500: ad0: 13783MB [28005/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done... -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 500 8273 27.7 7734 8.4 3009 7.6 8549 31.8 8828 7.2 134.6 1.3 ad1: 19574MB [39770/16/63] at ata1-master using UDMA66 Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done... -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 500 20650 84.1 20805 30.8 5644 14.8 22111 86.2 21253 21.1 148.9 1.4 Um, that ad1 drive cost me $224US, direct from the IBM mothership. Best regards, Russell %-- %Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net % % %To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org %with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message % To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message