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Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:34:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience
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On Wed May 16 10:27:24 EDT 2012, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:

> actually, it is a huge difference. there's also "rwm on".
>
> On 16 May 2012 15:05, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>
> > no.  though i doubt there would be a 10x reduction in performance.
> > one could reasonablly get 10mb/s with pio.  (if it working.)

for an ide drive, you are correct.  but nobody has those anymore.

try again with modern hardware that is doing ide emulation to
a sata drive.  this effect, in combination with massive seek times,
means that pio shouldn't make a whole lot of difference.

- erik