Re: Miata, 6.1 and EIDE

[Praveen Srinivasan <psrin0 pop uky edu>]

Well, I bet the target market is M$ users, so Promise probably is only interested in
their welfare (which is ironic since the Windows drivers wouldn't even run on my
machine :-)).

Praveen

Dave Gilbert wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, 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.
>
> Yeh, on my LX board with an IBM 7200RPM 34GB Ultra 66 drive I get about
> 12MB/s off the CMD646 on board (19% CPU) and only got about 9MB/s off the
> Promise.  I'm not sure what the problem is, but I can only presume it is
> the driver? This presumption is based on:
>
>    1) I presume someone somewhere has this controller running fast - or
> they could never sell it???
>
>    2) You are now saying you had the same problem on Intel, so it sounds
> like it isn't an Alpharism.
>
> (This was under Linux 2.3.14 a few months ago;  since it is my only
> drive it is a pain for me now to try with the Promise on newer versions).
>
> Dave
>
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