> This is results of testing my machine (Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX > notebook). Shows not very huge improvement yet ;)
The 1403 is a pretty slow drive, and the IDE interface in most of the Satellites just plain sucks. > ad0: <TOSHIBA MK1403MAV/D3.06 A> ATA-? disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 1376MB (2818368 sectors), 2796 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue I used to have one of these in another Satellite. I now have: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <TOSHIBA MK6409MAV>, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 6194MB (12685680 sectors), 13424 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S and its performance still sucks. At least its > 4x bigger. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
