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SATA - PATA, "native" - "legacy" (Announce)

posted by Rob E-mail, 07.12.2007, 14:05

> > - My experiments with Rawspeed (I think that it can be interesting)
>
> Very poor results for an UDMA-2 disk. And it's also strange that v86-mode
> takes considerable time. The XP result is not comparable IMO, because most
> likely a WB cache is involved here.
>
> Perhaps you should also try
> idecheck
>
> I just recently have added support for "native" IDE controllers.
>
> This tools allows to access HDs on the lowest level. There are options
> /PIO, /DMA and /I13, thus you can compare results achieved with "Int 13h",
> PIO and DMA. In your case it might be especially interesting if "idecheck 0
> /DMA" also gives these poor results.

* Idecheck 0 /PIO

10043 KB/sec ---> 9.807 MB/sec

* Idecheck 0 /I13

19274 KB/sec ---> 18.822 MB/sec

* Idecheck 0 /DMA

19308 KB/sec ---> 18.855 MB/sec

My computer is a Pentium III 600 MHz with 256 Mb of RAM

 

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