On 2008-06-10, Chris Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried many different models and brands of non-industrial flash, > and there seems to be significant differences in what ATA capabilities > different cards have. In practice, the vendors don't seem to include > the ATA interface differences in their benchmarks, and the ATA > capabilities can make a significant difference in performance. I have a > Lexar card here that is supposed to be a 300x card and a SanDisk that is > a 200x card, and the SanDisk performs about 20% faster despite the > difference in "official" speed. (Note: Lexar cards _SUCK_ on Soekris > because they don't honor CS in any sane way)
Yes really, use SanDisk. All the 2GB+ and all recent 1GB have multi-sector I/O transfers, this improves performance a lot. And they reset correctly, that's a big help if you have to use them in a system built using the old CF spec, it saves forcing the OS to disable DMA, and also helps this problem on the Soekris boards. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
