On  19 Nov, this message from francke echoed through cyberspace:
> i installed a new ata 100 7200 RPM Seagate barracuda in my
> beige G3/266 (using the internal ide, setting new drive to master,
> removed old). running debian woody tesing.
> i tweaked the dma settings allready with hdparm (-d1). if running
> a hdparm disk test (-t) i get: 64 MB in  5.22 seconds = 12.26 MB/sec
> 
> seems a bit slow to me.

Nah. I'd say that's not _too_ bad for such old hardware. Did you try

        hdparm -Tt

ie both options? What do you get as buffered speed?

I use a beige G3 at work and I sometimes think it is worse in perceived
speed than my even older 7600/G3-300.

Cheers

Michel

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