Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:49:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Olivier Nicole'" <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Panic at setup time Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101241049480.7120-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101241241290.65986-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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"shared bus" is the hint here... On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > PS. Why on earth did you buy an ATA33 board? ATA66 costs nothing > > extra these days, and with 128MB RAM you box is very likely to be > > disk-bound. (Mine is) > > Most drives still can't transfer more than 33MB/sec (there are just a > couple that can), so what would it matter? We were buying only 440BX > based systems up until about a month ago, and they only had ATA33 > interfaces. We've recently gotten in some i815 based boards with the > ATA100 interfaces, and there is very little noticeable difference in > disk access times. There is a slight benchmarkable difference, but I > doubt you could tell there was a difference without using the > benchmark. Once drives can transfer significantly more than 33MB/sec > (and I'm talking tens of megabytes more, at least), then you might > notice a significant difference without having to use a benchmark. > > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. > http://www.freebsd.org > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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