ATA anomaly Question

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:59:38 +0800
Bill Hacker <wbh at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:31:28 +0800
> > Bill Hacker <wbh at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >>Fine with me - so long as it doesn't actually downshift I/O rate-wise.
> >>(which IIRC, the FreeBSD ones actually *did* do, at least early-on.
> >>Ancient history now...)
> > 
> > 
> > 	It certainly doesn't I've seen well over 40MB/s out of a SATA
> > drive with the limited to UDMA33 message.
> > 
> 
> Sounds good! - Few single drives can sustain even that in 'real world'
> use- regardless of the interface. Burst-mode is, of course, another matter.

	I was reading a large file into a simple scanning routine it doesn't
get above 20MB/s very often in normal use.

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