[ILUG] [slightly OT] IDE Speed on 486?

[Thomas Ribbrock]

Hi folks!

Does anybody happen to know what maximum speed can be expected from the IDE
system on a 486 box? Reason I'm asking: I had a Quantum IDE drive in a P133
box and hdparm told me that I was getting ~3.5MB/s out of that drive. I then
moved the same drive to a 486 box (which is where it's supposed to reside in
the future), and on that box hdparm lists only a meagre 1.3MB/s, no matter
what I try. That box is a Vesa Local Bus machine (and the IDE controller is
indeed running off VLB), with which I have no experience, so I just want to
make sure that that box is actually running properly. Would be nice to get
IDE faster, though, as the CPU seems to be bored... (That box acts as a
dialup/masquerading/firewall box and also downloads mail - which seems to be
slower than possible, as the hard drive doesn't keep up... sigh...).

Any insight?

Thanks,

Thomas
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