epike on Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:34:26 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] ATA100 vs ATA66


thats fast.  what controller card do you have?

do you also set -W 1 ? I do that to enable
write cache..probably unsafe but thats the
way I like it.

& yes, In my disks the cache reads are the
same for both.

e pike / JondZ

> 
>  wow! changing the -X68/69 setting for the drives brought buffered disk
> reads from 9.6Mb/s to 16.6Mb/s for the ultra66 drive and from 11.8Mb/s to
> 32.2MB/s for the ultra100. cache reads remained the same with the ultra100
> performing slightly poorer than the ultra66.
>


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