On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done > with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA).
> Did you ever try to copy a large file in XP? Try it. > Try the same thing in linux on the same hardware. You don't need > a stop-watch. On Win-XP, a 10 megabyte file (hardly large) takes > about 10 seconds. That's 1 megabyte/second. Linux tries to be > a bit faster. Usually, I only have Linux on any hardware I have ;) And there is no point comparing these things here... -- Julien PS: Sorry Richard, I forgot my "reply to all" button... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
