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

[Buckie]

Wow. But still, can it be that something bottlenecks somewhere so that
I can't get these loverly speeds? Can I measure pci performance as
well? Would be cool to understand what doesn't allow this system to
use the 133 to its max...

Z

>> > 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
>>
KC> OK you win :-P I just don't know where to look I guess.

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