Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

[davej]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote..

> I reliably get 30MB/s with my IBM 30G 7200rpm ATA66 drive, using a
> Via VT82C586 controller.  2.4.0-test9.  Modern drives are really fast.

Hmm, I'm confused here.
VIA 586 can only do up to UDMA 2, which should return speeds less than
that. My system has an identical configuration, and I get ~12MB/s

Something doesn't add up here.
What mode do you have the drive in?

Regards,

Dave.

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