On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:55:08AM +0200, Szabo Attila wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I've put a WD enterprise 4360 Ultra3 scsi disk into my Indy.
> It is the only disk, and I disabled the wide negotiating on the disk.
> But it is too slow.I'm running debian woody and I've tested it
> with hdparm, but the buffered disk reads is just 1.7 MB/sec.
> It is very slow !!
> Is there any way to make it faster ??
Probably no - 1.7MB/s sound not too bad - Remember - That machine
is 10 Years old and was produced at times a i386 was modern which
had 1MB/s memory bandwidth.
SCSI transfers on the indy/I2 are made with DMA so i guess there is
no real speedup to expect.
Flo
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