-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Anne...
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 12:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > There's an old saying > > The faster the master, > The slower the slave > > It wouldn't matter which way round if you were right. Actually about six months back or so I did a relative speed test using a series of different UDMA drives on an enhanced system under various O/S platforms to see if anything had changed since the last time. Under *certain* conditions, that axiom no longer applies. However, I also willingly admit, despite doing a *lot* of skull-banging, I haven't figured out why, or for that matter, what has changed in how hard drive parameters are recognized under Linux. For example, under Mandrake using a fast high-speed 40 gigabyte drive, in approximately 40% of the time it was recognized by Mandrake as a fast drive, and deployed appropriately. If the slave was *also* a UDMA drive, it, too, was configured correctly. Even a lowly Iomega Zip Drive was configured as a fast access drive. Go figure, sez I. I even tried it using several different brands of drives, since I was neither scientific nor exacting about it. <sigh> When it worked it was a thing of marvel. However, just now having stuck my foot so nicely into my mouth, I couldn't then account for the other 60% of the time when one or both drives were recognized and configured as pokey slow EIDE drives. I repeated this test four or five times, and even had a fast drive be recognized two *different* ways several times. I know instinctively it is in the libraries somewhere, but I don't have a clue. FWIW, I was able to replicate the same test results using Micro$oft Windoze 98 and backwards a time or two. For the most part, Windows 98 Second Edition and upwards recognizes the drive geometry correctly every time. <sigh> Can I buy an axiom now? <grin> Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic & random thought For the Minute: Reality is for people who lack imagination. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+SWccaE1ENZP1A28RApucAKCt/8hp17uC1Z7XvEXAbOcOdG/vaQCcDXAK kRoHv4eh7qTWjLR+GL/C9Lc= =VQIe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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