Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:35 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
The biggest obstacle to good performance on a P2B is the disk I/O. The onboard piix controller is Ultra DMA 2 aka UDMA33, capable of about 1/3 the throughput of the last made PATA disks. These controllers were the last PATA not to require 80 wire cables for reliable performance at max speed. I used to use SCSI instead of PATA on i440BX to get around that bottleneck, but took the last of my 100FSB systems out of service several months ago.
They use the SCSI interface on the motherboard. We have always tried to get our users to invest in good disks.
Roger, I have about a hundred 1/2" SCSI/SCA drives in varying sizes, ranging from 9 to 72Gb, most either 18Gb or 36Gb - would your customer be interested in purchasing some of those? (SCA drives are getting increasingly expensive and rare). /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org