On 2009-10-09, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: >> > would you please share the RELEVANT PORTION OF YOUR DMESG for the card (and >> > your opinions if you'd like)? I'm particularly interested in what's >> > reported for x-sector PIO and related. >> >> It might be a bit late, but ... >> >> $ dmesg | grep wd >> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <CF 4GB> >> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3823MB, 7831152 sectors >> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 >> root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b >> $ >> >> This is on 4.5. I use that card in my Alix-based firewall. So far I >> didn't have any problems with it. > > Some time ago, it was suggested that the "1-sector PIO" > is what's occasionaly "slow" about some of these cards > (e.g. when untarring a big tgz during an install).
it helps, but so do other things. > Sadly, I have never seen any multi-sector PIO card. > And obviuosly, I will be upgrading soon (ALICes, actually). > Can people recommend some quality multi-sector PIO CF cards? sandisk (all modern cards), and I've been using the innodisk CF/DOM recently which have been fine, wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <InnoDisk Corp. - iCF4000 1GB> wd0: 2-sector PIO, LBA, 999MB, 2047248 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <InnoDisk Corp. - EDC4000 1GB> wd0: 2-sector PIO, LBA, 999MB, 2047248 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 0
