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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: How Fast IDE ????
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:39:53 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
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- Steve Koren (koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com) wrote:
-
- : > > that you DO NOT have it :)) it will go even faster.
- : > > My WD 540 Caviar does approx 2.5 MB/s.
-
- : Interesting. I wonder where the bottleneck is in my system? I've got a
- : fairly fast Western Digital 1.3 Gb drive, stock 4000/040/25, FFS. Mine
- : maxes out at about 1.6 Mb/sec with DiskSpeed.
-
- : Thankfully I don't have any urgent need for a great deal of disk
- : throughput, but I'm curious why everyone else is getting better numbers.
- : I don't *think* it is the drive.
-
- The bottleneck (I belive) is in the lack of 040 protocolls
- in the Ramsey chip.
- The instructions have to be translated to 030s so that the
- motherboard can communicate with the C3640. This is also
- the reason with the 040 burst-mode is nonexisting.
- So, all large transfers to and from ram suffers greatly.
- Cheers...
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