On Wednesday, September 19, 2001, at 07:49 am, Philip Stortz wrote:
> i would guess, either the mac os is verifying the write on the built in
> bus but not on the one on the sonnet card, or, are you using the bus
> that normally connects to the dvd/cd drive? it's only ata-33. another
> possibility would be if you have virtual memory on, if so it could be
> using some of the bandwidth. what software are you using?
>
> James Morgan wrote:
>>
>> Here is an interesting one. Setting up New 40 GB Maxtor hard
>> drives in my G4/733 I found that the one hooked to a Sonnet ATA-66
>> PCI/IDE card writes zeros at least twice as fast as the one hooked to
>> the onboard IDE port.
I heard somebody say on this list, during discussions about upgrading
hard disks in a B&W G3 (something that often requires an ATA card :( )
that G4s actually work better off ATA/66 cards than of the internal ATA
bus. It's got something to do with Frimware I Think ?....
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