Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

[Brendan Pike]

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.