Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

[Eric Anderson]

John Von Essen wrote:
> Actually, using a variety of Maxtor drives, I don't think I have ever
> gotten anything better then 11.5 Megabytes/sec - and this was on boards
> with ATA-100.
> 
> About a year ago I had several Tyan S2099's with a 40Gb Seagate, and was
> doing drive duplications with dd and a FreeBSD boot CD. Again, 11
> Megabytes/sec max.

Keep in mind that ATA-100 specifies the *bus* speed, not the 
platter-to-bus speed.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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