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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.inap.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Western Digital 2.5GB IDE HD doesn't work under FreeBSD ! X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4m9vv8$9l@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <aak2.830530576@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4m02u4$c00@dyson.iquest.net> <aak2.830926330@Ra.MsState.Edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 09:40:56 GMT Lines: 21 In article <aak2.830926330@Ra.MsState.Edu>, Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: > >>I believe in the install process you could set the fdisk slice information >>identically, and might be able to make progress with a disklabel like mine >>above? Again, I don't boot from my 2.5GB Caviar, so I am not sure how >>the bios interacts with this large of an IDE drive. BTW, I get about >>8-9MBytes/sec read perf on this baby!!! > >Wow ! 8MBytes/sec, I cant wait to start using the new drive. My only concern >is the Intel PCI, I was very exciting about this also, but it doesn't seem to >be working well for me. Is it for anybody else ? > Only one warning, the write perf is only 4-4.5MBytes/sec. The drive buffer is too small... I have even tried to modify the FreeBSD clustering code, and cannot get any better than that. Since you usually wait on reads more often, it isn't all that bad. But my read perf still stands, it is really fast. John