Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

Brendan Pike
2001-12-20T19:33:43Z

On Thursday 20 December 2001 02:08 pm, you wrote:
> > here is -T
> >
> > [root@spikes spike]# /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/hda
> > /dev/hda:
> > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.89 seconds = 32.90 MB/sec
>
> well, no wonder. on a modern machine, -T shows 200 MB/s.
> what kind of CPU/motherboard is this? I'm guessing it's
> a socket7 system with PC66 dram, perhaps just edo. the problem
> is that it's dram and probably PCI infrastructure can't
> really handle much bandwidth, so doesn't keep the disk "streaming".

Actually it is a Socket 7 AMD 300 with 384MB SDRAM PC-133 running at 100Mhz
Bus clock.