Re: Absolutely horrid IDE performance...

Brian Macy (bmacy@sunshinecomputing.com)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:29:46 -0800


>CPU overhead is less for IDE than for SCSI.

Ummm... that would surprise me... I have yet to see an example that supports
that.

>Upgrade to hdparm-3.5 so that you can display the
>drive's current UDMA mode. The BIOS may have selected mode0
>instead of the faster mode2.
>
>Ooops.. wait a minute.. you said:
>>ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
>The Intel PIIX chip does not support UDMA.
>Are you not running a 2.1.xxx kernel??? You should be!

It is a SuperMicro PSBA motherboard... It has a PIIX4. I'll definitely give
a new kernel a try after Thanksgiving. That's for the info.

Brian Macy

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