Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds.

[Kenneth Culver]

> > Guess I just didn't look hard enough or in the right place. I only spent a
> > minute or 2 on it, but yeah ATA drives don't tell you that sort of thing,
> > they say stuff like "ATA133 for a max transfer rate of 133 MB/sec *" then
> > at the bottom the * says something like "133 MB/sec burst rate from drive
> > to controller" or something similar. But I did try fairly hard to find
> > specs on our Seagate drives and couldn't find a hard number that told what
> > the maximum read and write speeds were.
>
> Thats maybe true for some drives, but generally they state this info
> in their docs, for the Diamond 9+ it took me < 10 secs to find the
> below transfer speeds, I did have the PDF handy though :)
>
> Disk to Read Once a   236Mb/sec      236Mb/sec    236Mb/sec     236Mb/sec
> Revolution            mminimum        minimum      minimum      minimum
>
>                       433Mb/sec      433Mb/sec    433Mb/sec     433Mb/sec
>                       maximum        maximum      maximum       maximum
>
> Disk to Read          257Mb/sec      257Mb/sec    257Mb/sec     257Mb/sec
> Instantaneously       minimum        minimum      minimum       minimum
>
>                       472Mb/sec      472Mb/sec    472Mb/sec     472Mb/sec
>                       maximum        maximum      maximum       maximum
>
OK you win :-P I just don't know where to look I guess.

Ken