From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 17: 1:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles168.castles.com [208.214.165.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F50515269 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07519; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 16:51:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903060051.QAA07519@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: sobomax@altavista.net Cc: =?x-user-defined?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:16:49 +0200." <36DD4451.C74DCA90@altavista.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:51:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is results of testing my machine (Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX > notebook). Shows not very huge improvement yet ;) The 1403 is a pretty slow drive, and the IDE interface in most of the = Satellites just plain sucks. > ad0: ATA-? disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 1376MB (2818368 sectors), 2796 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue I used to have one of these in another Satellite. I now have: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 6194MB (12685680 sectors), 13424 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S and its performance still sucks. At least its > 4x bigger. 8) -- = \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message