Trying a Promise Ultra/66 on powerpc

Justin McKillican linuxppc at home.com
Sat Aug 14 00:28:42 EST 1999


>> 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

Hehehe..   about $1200 USD for a 50gig Seagate baracuda (ultra2 scsi)


justin

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