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- From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Question about ISA/IDE di
- Message-ID: <624.1189.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:02:00 GMT
- Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
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- DD>While the effective transfer rate is
- DD>really that high--1250KB/sec peak-- the actual disk<-->memory transfer
- DD>is far lower, the difference attributed to the chache performance.
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- You are confusing old MFM drives with newer IDE and SCSI drives, 1250KB/sec
- is a very realizable sustained throughput from a decent drive. I look
- around the room, there's nothing in sight that doesn't do at least
- 1000KB/sec here, that's three SCSI based systems, and an IDE one. BTW,
- I'm NOT measuring the speed of the cache, I'm talking raw DTR here.
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- 53spt * 60rev/sec = 3180 sector/second
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- If a sector is the normal 512 bytes, that seems to come to 1590KB/sec
- at 1:1 interleave. Even if you subtract some for sector skew, a normal
- 760mb SCSI drive is easily able to do a sustained 1300-1400KB/sec.
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- . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . Point not found. A)bort, R)eread, I)gnore.
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