Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

[John Von Essen]

I think in summary, though, the end result is that the 15 Megabytes/sec
that Amandeep was getting is normal.

-john

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:

> 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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