Re: PCMCIA/IDE transfer rates

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

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Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
MPC823E   250   534 90.4  3028 68.6  1533 64.4   542 97.6  3316 94.5  45.2  4.5

Note that this is a normal 2.5" disk drive usually used in laptops  -
quite  slow.

Well, actually quite respectable for PIO.  I'm not sure my G4 runs
much faster in PIO mode :-).

Well, it's a 823-E (big caches) running at 66 MHz (both CPU  and  bus
clock). I have slower systems (like MPC850), too :-(

Wolfgang Denk

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