On Wed May 16 10:27:24 EDT 2012, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: > actually, it is a huge difference. there's also "rwm on". > > On 16 May 2012 15:05, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: > > > no. though i doubt there would be a 10x reduction in performance. > > one could reasonablly get 10mb/s with pio. (if it working.)
for an ide drive, you are correct. but nobody has those anymore. try again with modern hardware that is doing ide emulation to a sata drive. this effect, in combination with massive seek times, means that pio shouldn't make a whole lot of difference. - erik
