--- Kevin O'Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 03:22 AM, Joe WF Runnels wrote: > > > Whoa, I bench marked my system using Xbench and I get REALLY slow > disk > > access, I have a IBM Deskstar 307030 that is 7200 RPM and 30 GBs, I > > > get a > > score of like 0.59 MB/sec or soemthing, very bad, what speed is the > ata > > controller in this thing, like PIO mode 2? This hard drive was > like > > wicked fast two years ago and it IS ATA 100, maybe the ATA > controller > > in > > my gige mac is only a ATA 33 or 66? Would getting an ATA 100 > > Controller > > card and putting it in a PCI slot help this? I do have a pci > radeon > > video card isntalled driving two monitors at 1280*1024, could this > > video > > on the PCI bus be clogging the bus making disk reads and writes > wicked > > slow? My main video card is a Geforce 4 MX 440 in the AGP slot... > > > > -Joe >
Your benchmark numbers seem kinda fishy to me. I have a G3/266 with an ata/133 on the stock bus (til I got a card) and it benchmarked at 14MB/s. I wonder if something is wrong with your system. Eric in Phoenix __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
