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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:58:38 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        kstewart@3-cities.com
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, mbac@nyct.net, bright@wintelcom.net, toasty@dragondata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Double buffered cp(1)
Message-ID:  <19282.956775518@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:32:53 -0700"
References:  <39073655.56A70C00@3-cities.com>

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> >   A modern hard disk can do 10-30 MBytes/sec to/from the platter, assuming
> >   no seeks.  But the moment it needs to seek the performance drops
> >   drastically ... generally down to 1-5 MBytes/sec.
> 
> I haven't seen any 30MB/s. The 10K LVD IBM's were just about the
> fastest at 20MB/s continuous. The drop for UDMA drives is to even
> lower rates.

The IBM DPTA-372730 will do 23 MB/s continuous - this is a 7200 RPM IDE
drive with very high bit density. There are IDE drives that do more, and
I certainly expect the new 36 GB 1" 10K drives to do more.

> I just noticed that mine isn't showing "Tagged Queueing Enabled" is
> that something I can set? The adapter is an Adaptec 2940uw.
> 
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> da0: <IBM DCAS-34330W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
> da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)

The DCAS-34330 is quirked out - which may not always be sensible. See
/sys/cam/cam_xpt.c.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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