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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Mylex SCSI Controller, 16550A UARTS
Message-ID: <982@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 19:46:16 GMT
References: <111016@nstar.UUCP> <707@fiver.UUCP> <2834NU013809@NDSUVM1> <6075@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <6075@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
|  
|  	Have you tried dd'ing _to_ the drive to see what it's write
|  rate is?  We've found there to be an AMAZING (ly disappointing)
|  difference betwixt read & rite rates!

  No, and unless someone gives me a machine which needs the disk
reloaded I won't. Doing a dd to the raw device assures that the data are
contiguous, but writing to a raw device is a good way to leave a very
dead filesystem.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon