Subject: Re: scsi-disks hardsectored to 1024 byte/sec
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 07/16/1998 13:47:56
On Wed 15 Jul 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> Leo,
> 	Do you have the time to forward your patches to
> gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org with the subject set to match the PR, so that
> GNATS will automatically record them?

I already did that (just before I jumped into the thread ;-). I just checked
gnats and it is there (retrieve pr 3792).

> 	It would also be nice to get a summary of your performance data...

I'll look for it. Here at work, in my clipboard was the following piece of
Bonnie data (Note that this was on a 300Mb old MAXTOR, I had one on 1024 and
one on 512 byte sector size in my system at that time):

              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
100-1K    100   384 60.0   380 11.6   290 13.6   509 99.3   994 23.7  30.0  9.0

100-512   100   583 99.0  1110 63.3   559 47.3   508 99.3  1005 46.6  31.5  8.8

100-512O  100   583 99.1  1114 64.4   558 50.1   508 99.4  1005 46.6  31.6  8.9

Legenda:
    100-1K  : Use patched kernel on a 1K sectored disk
    100-512 : Use patched kernel on a 512B sectored disk
    100-512O: 512B sectored disk, kernel not patched

Leo.