Subject: Re: UDMA 100 probelm
To: None <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/21/2001 14:34:29
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:02:12PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> >    > 
> >    > Interesting. Could you try to just remove the PDC_IS_265 here:
> > 
> > Thanks.  This change works well.  My drives are working as
> > UDMA 5 now regarding to boot-time messages, though I have no
> > way to check the actual speed.
> 
> dd if=/dev/rwd0d bs=64k count=16384 of=/dev/null
> 
> and you will see how much seconds is needed to read 1GB of data.

No, with this you'll get the speed of the medium, not the speed of
bus. You can see a difference between Ultra/33 and Ultra/66 but not
Ultra/66 and Ultra/100; drives aren't fast enouth yet.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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