Processor speed

[Eric "Shubes"]

Subsequent posts identify your HDD as DMA133 capable. The IDE interface on
your MB will probably not go that fast, and the HDD will downshift to
whatever your MB can handle. To speed up your HDD, you might consider buying
a PCI/IDE/DMA133 card and be sure to use an 80 wire ribbon (should come with
the card). Note, your HDD will show up as hde when connected to the
expansion card (instead of hda when connected to the MB).

Michael Havens wrote:
> It appears as if the two machines in question are identical.... all the  
> way down to how much RAM is in it. It appears that I need the 170MB RAM  
> chips. I realize now that I also need a faster drive but I already have  
> one drive on the shelf (windows drive) that was installed when the  
> computer was built ('97) and two in the computer. One of the two I bought  
> around '02 and I haven't a clue abouven't a clue about the other that is a  
> SCSI drive (it is swap). (how do you view it's rpm?)
> 
> Glad I learned about lshw!
>          *-scsi
>               description: SCSI storage controller
>               product: AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
>               vendor: Adaptec
>               physical id: c
>               bus info: pci at 00:0c.0
>               logical name: scsi2
>               version: 00
>               width: 32 bits
>               clock: 33MHz
>               capabilities: scsi bus_master scsi-host
>               configuration: driver=aic7xxx
>               resources: iomemory:df102000-df102fff irq:9
> 
>          *-ide
>               description: IDE interface
>               product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master  
> IDE
>               vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>               physical id: 7.1
>               bus info: pci at 00:07.1
>               version: 06
>               width: 32 bits
>               clock: 33MHz
>               capabilities: ide bus_master
>               configuration: driver=VIA_IDE
>               resources: ioport:d000-d00f
>             *-ide:0
>                  description: IDE Channel 0
>                  physical id: 0
>                  bus info: ide at 0
>                  logical name: ide0
>                  clock: 33MHz
>                *-disk
>                     product: Maxtor 6E040L0
>                     vendor: Maxtor
>                     physical id: 0
>                     bus info: ide at 0.0
>                     logical name: /dev/hda
>                     capacity: 38GB
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:45:41 -0700, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> The million dollar question is how much ram do you have?
>>
>> I'm running 384Mb and my drives are 7200rpm
>>
>>
>>    IBM                   Deskstar Hard Drive
>>    Formatted                   Storage Capacity : 20 GB
>>    Interface                   : UDMA/100 (IDE)
>>    Spindle                   Speed : 7,200 RPM
>>    Data                   Buffer : 2MB
>>    Latency                   (average ms) : 4.17
>>    Average                   Seek Time : 8.5ms
>> This is a turn of the century drive.
>>
>> This conversation is making me think of a project I was doing about 8  
>> years ago.
>>
>> I worked for a growing HMO.  We had about 300 employees I seem to  
>> recall.  I was in Tucson and we had 27Gigs of space on Novell servers  
>> for all of us.  I was in Underwriting so we were allotted 4Gig of that.
>>
>> I created a application that would process 4Gigs of data over the  
>> network every  month.  I guess it drove IS crazy because they spent  
>> $2700 on an ultra wide fast 9Gig SCII drive with a controller card that  
>> could manage like 64 peripherals
>>
>> We had an Intel 100 MHz machine with 8mb or 16mb of RAM and something  
>> like a 400Mb HD.  We beefed it up to 64Mb RAM
>>
>> While doing testing before that HD & RAM upgrade I could see the record  
>> counter in the one's position change.
>>
>> After the addition I could not make out the one's or the ten's position  
>> and the hundred's position was moving rather fast.
>>
>> Of course I was pulling the data local and then processing it which had  
>> to speed it up.
>>
>> My point is: Same CPU, more RAM, and an extremely faster drive woke up  
>> an otherwise hand-me-down machine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:56:08  
>> -0700, JT Moree
>> wrote:
>>
>>> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>>>
>> bmike1 at 0[~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
>> cpu family      : 5
>> model           : 8
>> model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
>> stepping        : 12
>> cpu MHz         : 501.216
>> cache size      : 64 KB
>> fdiv_bug        : no
>> hlt_bug         : no
>> f00f_bug        : no
>> coma_bug        : no
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 1
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow
>> k6_mtrr
>> bogomips        : 1003.84
>>
>> bmike1 at 0[~]$                                                           --
>> :~)MIKE(~:
>>
>> Maybe everything is fine and I just THINK it is slow.
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-Eric 'shubes'