Re: Miata, 6.1 and EIDE

[Praveen Srinivasan <psrin0 pop uky edu>]

Well, I used hdparm -tT /dev/hdx to benchmark the drive. Is this wrong? Is there a
better way to do it (namely yours)?

Praveen Srinivasan

Wes Bauske wrote:

> Praveen Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > I don't know about Alphalinux, but I had a Promise Ultra66 controller in my x86
> > machine with a Ultra66 capable HD, and the disk perfomance was pretty
> > disappointing; it was about the same as the onboard IDE. People have speculated
> > that the driver is at fault.
> >
>
> I'm currently experimenting with large EIDE disks on
> my Athlon which are UATA66 capable. Those devices and
> the Athlon board can do 20MB/sec sequential read and write
> between devices on separate IDE channels under RH6.0's
> default kernel so if you're not seeing good performance,
> suspect the Promise controller or your disk. Linux is
> quite capable of very good UATA66 performance with the
> proper HW. I was surprised by an aggregate thruput with
> two devices of 40MB/sec sustained on EIDE. Those HW
> engineers are doing a good job of giving SCSI a run for
> the money. I bought 3 40GB EIDE disks for $900. Need to
> try one on my XP1000 to see what Alpha Linux thinks
> about them though. I don't believe either the DS10 or
> XP1000 are UATA66 capable. Might be able to do UATA33
> though. Anyone know?
>
> Wes
>
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