Great IDE perf (WAS: Strange PMAC IDE performance)

Timothy A. Seufert tas at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 8 05:59:36 EST 1999


At 10:32 PM +1100 1/7/99, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>Tim Seufert <tas at mindspring.com> wrote:

>> Performance is up to 5.6 MB/s (was in
>> the region of 1.6 before).

>The hack also works on my powerbook 3400, but I only get 4.3MB/s.  On
>the iMac I get 10.53MB/s with 211025, but only 8.47MB/s with 221025.

If you have the std. factory drive in the 3400, that might explain it.  I
replaced the original 1.3 GB drive in my 2400 with a much newer IBM 4.0 GB
model.

Sometimes, I get 6.3 MB/s instead of 5.6.  Kind of weird.

  Tim Seufert

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