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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:51:26 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        sobomax@altavista.net
Cc:        =?x-user-defined?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver.. 
Message-ID:  <199903060051.QAA07519@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:16:49 %2B0200." <36DD4451.C74DCA90@altavista.net> 

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> This is results of testing my machine (Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX
> notebook). Shows not very huge improvement yet ;)

The 1403 is a pretty slow drive, and the IDE interface in most of the =

Satellites just plain sucks.

> ad0: <TOSHIBA MK1403MAV/D3.06 A> ATA-? disk at ata0 as master
> ad0: 1376MB (2818368 sectors), 2796 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue

I used to have one of these in another Satellite.  I now have:

wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <TOSHIBA MK6409MAV>, 32-bit, multi-block-16
wd0: 6194MB (12685680 sectors), 13424 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

and its performance still sucks.  At least its > 4x bigger. 8)

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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