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Re: debian-trivia



On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:44, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:29:17AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> > Just under 6 seconds here. Pentium II (Deschutes) @ 400 MHz (800
> > BogoMIPS), 384 MB RAM (66 MHz SDRAM), and an overwhelmingly cool
> > WD1200JB (120 GB, 8 MB buffer, ~8000 RPM, UDMA 33) hard drive. The
> > bottleneck appears to be the CPU, which maxes out while parsing
> > /var/lib/dpkg/*.
> 
> Guess you meant UDMA 133 - I'd be surprised if anyone was making 120Gb
> UDMA 33 disks. Are UDMA 133 controllers available yet? I've had a Maxtor
> drive capable of it for nearly a year, but no controller.

The drive probably is faster than 33. My _controller_ can't go faster
than 33, though. That's why I said UDMA 33.

Alex.

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