Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

[Daryl Pawluk <dpawluk@home.com>]

Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my
> > system.
>
> > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s.  this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm
> > expecting to get.
>
> Why are you expecting 100MB/s?  That's the bus maximum bandwidth.
> It doesn't mean you can physically read data off the disk platter
> that fast.
>
> (5 years ago I was happy to get 7 MB/s of a disk.)
>
> Peter
>  
i have similar ibm drives which use udma/66 and i get 17.88 MB/sec. so i 
think your drives are working pretty damn good which are more than 
double that.

daryl