Felix Miata wrote:

>My Promise Ultra 100TX2 produces dismal Simultaneous Disk I/O
>performance on Sysbench 0.9.5 with my Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB:
>  
>


> Disk I/O disk 0-1: 57239 MB - ST360021A
>   Avg. data access time :       14.700    milliseconds
>   Cache/Bus xfer rate   :       23.604    Megabytes/second
>*  Track 0 xfer rate fwd :       15.218    Megabytes/second
>   Middle trk rate fwds. :       15.796    Megabytes/second
>** Last track rate bwds. :       20.660    Megabytes/second
>   Average Transfer rate :       17.225    Megabytes/second
>   Disk use CPU load     :        3.610    percent  
>

Hi Felix,
I wouldn't give any credence whatsoever to a benchmark that rates a last 
track backwards faster than a trk0 forwards!
Those numbers are barely faster than PIO4.

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