On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Sadly, I have never seen any multi-sector PIO card. > And obviuosly, I will be upgrading soon (ALICes, actually). > Can people recommend some quality multi-sector PIO CF cards?
I've had excellent results with SanDisk cards. This one is on a Soekris 5500: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFX4-8192> wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 7815MB, 16007040 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b This one is on an early Soekris 4801 which does not support DMA modes in the CF socket, so had to disable that in kernel: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFX-2048> wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 1953MB, 4001760 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b In this case the fancy new card did not perform any better than the cheap old one, but you should not run into that problem with recent hardware.
