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- From: pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: ESDI disk performance under 386BSD
- Message-ID: <pb.714055956@atperf.idca.tds.philips.nl>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 12:52:36 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.170148.22228@dsuvax.dsu.edu> <1992Aug15.064435.13623@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl
- Reply-To: pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Enterprise B.V.,Apeldoorn,The Netherlands.
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- X-Disclaimer: This opinion is mine alone
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- In <1992Aug15.064435.13623@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug14.170148.22228@dsuvax.dsu.edu> ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) writes:
- >[ ... my WD1007V-SE2 controller an my Wren VI seem real slow ... ]
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- >There are 2 delay(100)'s in the disk driver to make it slower. Dunno if this
- >is what's biting you. I suspect you are missing the interleave. With that
- >controller, make sure the low level format (not possible with 386BSD -- use
- >a DOS tool) is 1:1.
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- Also you should experiment with the gap value in mkfs. This greatly influence
- your disk performance.
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