On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Sean Farley wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:14, Mike Silbersack wrote:
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> > Rumor has it that newer drives cannot write a single sector at a time,
> > and instead must read a whole cluster of sectors, add in the new
> > sector, and write back the whole cluster. That behavi
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:14, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean Farley wrote:
>
> > I just do not understand how a 5400 RPM UDMA 33 drive can beat a
> > 7200 RPM UDMA 133 drive by 33% on sequential output blocks.
>
> Rumor has it that newer drives cannot write a single sector at a t
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean Farley wrote:
> I just do not understand how a 5400 RPM UDMA 33 drive can beat a 7200
> RPM UDMA 133 drive by 33% on sequential output blocks.
Rumor has it that newer drives cannot write a single sector at a time, and
instead must read a whole cluster of sectors, add i
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:34, Mike Silbersack wrote:
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> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sean Farley wrote:
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> > With write cache enabled it does perform better, but I would like
> > the new computer to at least equal the old system without it
> > enabled.
>
> With all due respect, whether that's a reality is
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sean Farley wrote:
> With write cache enabled it does perform better, but I would like the
> new computer to at least equal the old system without it enabled.
With all due respect, whether that's a reality isn't your choice, it's the
drive's choice. :)
Does the drive suppo
I have a Soltek 75DRV5 (VIA 8233a) and a Maxtor 6L080L4. The problem I
am having is with poor performance with ATA-133. My ATA-33 system beats
it.
After building a new system, I noticed that it was less responsive when
it came to I/O concerning the hard drive. The standard XFree86 source
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