on 20/09/2001 14:29, (G-List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ?....
>
> --
>
> Mark Benson
The opposite, actually. And it was for the Sawtooth G4's. Check out
www.barefeats.com for the test details. Seems the Sawtooth had some
PCI-related "bottleneck" on data transfers. Don't know if it has since been
remedied thru firmware.
Anyway, the result was that a Sawtooth with HD(s) attached to PCI ATA/66
card was a lot slower on Sustained Writes than either a Yosemite or Yikes.
Chris H
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