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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:7501 comp.os.linux:14853 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!kogwy!math-keio!mad From: mad@math.keio.ac.jp (MAEDA Atusi) Subject: Re: IDE faster than SCSI-2 In-Reply-To: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg's message of Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08: 07:16 GMT Message-ID: <MAD.92Nov5204000@lettuce.math.keio.ac.jp> Lines: 17 Sender: news@math.keio.ac.jp Nntp-Posting-Host: lettuce Reply-To: mad@math.keio.ac.jp Organization: Faculty of Sci. and Tech., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan. References: <1992Nov5.080716.10386@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:40:03 GMT >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux >From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) >Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:07:16 GMT >I only use 1 megabyte for test file size. The file size of one megabyte is too short to get meaningful result. You are just measuring the speed of copying to/from buffer cache. You should give numbers at least twice as large as your RAM size. ;;; Keio University ;;; Faculty of Science and Technology ;;; Department of Math ;;; MAEDA Atusi (In Japan we write our family names first.) ;;; mad@math.keio.ac.jp