On Mon, 06 May 2002 15:42:28 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sun, 05 May 2002 16:19:30 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> WOW. Is that the first run, or is it a later run after everything has >> already been saved in cache ? >> Only the first run on clean cache is relevant. > First run. But that's with Smartdrv installed. Without Smartdrv it takes > 1 min, 51 secs to run Speedchk and the hard drive sounds like a cheap > coffee grinder. That's still unusually fast. VERY,VERY fast. Almost exactly the speed on a RAMDISK on *MY* '386. (20MHz) My HD would take 5-10 minutes without a cache. AHAH !!! You must have Smartdrive set to cache writes ! I would never do that again since it has already bitten me twice or so. I only cache reads so it takes 1 min 5 or so sec on HD even with cache. >> For all who wish to set up a ramdisk and run this test with their >> normal OS to compare the OS speeds, get: >> http://caverge.arachne.cz/linked/testuros.zip > I'll give it a go and let you know. So far have you discoverd an > advantage to IBM DOS 3.30? I need more data. <G> As far as I can tell, there seems to be about a factor of two speed advantage. If 3.31 retains that advantage and gives access to >32Mb partitions, it would certainly be the optimum way to go for slow boxes. - Clarence Verge. -- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL.
