Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

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Erik Mouw wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote:

Willy Tarreau wrote:

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote:

Here I have

      /dev/hda:  26.91 MB/sec
      /dev/hda1: 26.90 MB/sec    (Windows FAT32)
      /dev/hda7: 17.89 MB/sec    (Linux EXT3)

Could you give me a reason how this is possible?


a reason for what ? the fact that the notebook performs faster than the
desktop while slower on I/O ?

No, a reason why the partition with Linux (ReiserFS or Ext3) is always slower
than the Windows partition?


Easy: Drives don't have the same speed on all tracks. The platters are
built-up from zones with different recording densities: zones near the
center of the platters have a lower recording density and hence a lower
datarate (less bits/second pass under the head). Zones at the outer
diameter have a higher recording density and a higher datarate.


Erik


So it has definitely nothing to do with filesystem? I also thought about physical reasons because I don't think the hdparm depends on filesystems...
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