Re: ATA anomaly Question

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:31:28 +0800
> Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Fine with me - so long as it doesn't actually downshift I/O rate-wise.
> > (which IIRC, the FreeBSD ones actually *did* do, at least early-on.
> > Ancient history now...)
>
>
> 	It certainly doesn't I've seen well over 40MB/s out of a SATA
> drive with the limited to UDMA33 message.

Sounds good! - Few single drives can sustain even that in 'real world'
use- regardless of the interface. Burst-mode is, of course, another matter.

Thanks,

Bill