[mythtv] performance

[Calvin Harrigan]

Doesn't the KT-400 chipset pair with the 8235 southbridge?  Even the
kt133, kt266, and forward pair with newer south bridges{686A(B),
8231,8233} than the 586b.

Calvin...

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 21:06, mark@zzo.com wrote:
> A maxtor 30GB ATA-133 7200 rpm (Maxtor 6E030L0) with VIA IDE (VT82C586B) gives:
> (this is a KT-400 motherboard)
> 
> happy ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.41 seconds =312.20 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.27 seconds = 50.39 MB/sec
> 
> 2.4.20 has support for this chipset running at ATA-133 built in.
> You can also get kernel patches from VIA to patch older kernels for
> ATA-133.  I assume bigger maxtor ATA-133/7200rpm drives have
> similar performance.
>     M
> 
> Chuck Ferring(chuckf@fullplaymedia.com)@2002.12.13 16:44:37 +0000:
> > Does anyone have a hard drive recommendation? What kind of performance
> > do people get with whatever brand/model they're using?
> > 
> >  
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