Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:17, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 

>>/dev/hda:
>>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   1096 MB in  2.00 seconds = 547.54 MB/sec
>>  Timing buffered disk reads:   66 MB in  3.02 seconds =  21.86 MB/sec
>>
>>Is that close enough to 30MB/s?
> 
> 
> It's less than my ancient PII-450 gets with an almost-as-old
> 66 mHZ IDE card.  A  2.4 gHZ P4 that should be closer to your
> specs gets 60MB/s.  Do you see something like:
> hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> if you look at 'dmesg | less'?  (The UDMA and speed being
> the relevant part).

# dmesg | grep UDMA
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Looks more or less equivalent to what you have.

Mike
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