Trying a Promise Ultra/66 on powerpc

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On   8 Aug, this message from Daniel Jacobowitz echoed through cyberspace:
> > On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 09:54:12PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
> >> >> > /dev/hdc:
> >> >> >   Timing buffered disk reads:  32 MB in  5.83 seconds = 5.49 MB/sec
> >> ;-)) How about this:
> >> 
> >> /dev/hde:
> >>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  6.60 seconds = 9.70 MB/sec
> >> Maxtor 91024D4; 10G 7200 RPM, UDMA-2 ie 33 MB/s.
> > 
> > Eek.  I want that :)
> 
> No, you'd rather want _this_:
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  4.67 seconds =13.70 MB/sec

Stop whining and buy an UW-SCSI disk :-) My Viking II flies at 17 MB/s.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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