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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: VESA Support in FreeBSD?
Date: 6 May 1995 21:10:32 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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DAWORM (Da_worm@cris.com) wrote:
: On a similar note, does FreeBSD support the LBA mode and other features
: of EIDE cards. In DOS, I have a file in config.sys that sets up the
: card, then goes away. Without this, I get a rating of 2800 kps from my
: Conner 850, and with it I get 12600 kps (this is with CoreTest, so the
: numbers are likely not to be strictly accurate, but they can be used
: fairly well for comparisons.)
the only thing you measure there is the channel from the disk-cache to your
mainboard - today you may get max. only around 6 megs from the physical
disks - and as far as i remember the values i've seen here - FreeBSD get's
really close values (via scsi of course) - but 12 megs you'll never get
sustained (because the disk can't read so much physically) - t
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