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.
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