On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:00:39PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > Note that this can also be dependant on the drives. 
> > The attached program will test the bandwidth between the drive's cache and the
> > host. usage: ./tst /dev/rwd0d 10000 (increase last parameter if it completes
> > too fast to give accurate results).
> 
> Thanks. The program prints about 85 MB/s for the SATA disks and about
> 113 MB/s for the PATA disks. Interesting...

I get 92MB/s out of a Maxtor 6L080M0 (PATA) on a ICH7 controller.
On the same box I get 117MB/s from a ST3402111AS on a JMicron AHCI controller.

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