[TriLUG] OT: hd speed with 33MHz and 100MHz controller are the same

[Alan Porter]

> How can the bus be the bottleneck when the reciprocal of the bus frequency
> is an order of magnitude faster than the hard disk access time?
>   

Is it because the seek is only done once per block, and then the entire 
block is read? That first byte takes a long time, but the next 511 bytes 
after that are pretty quick.

Alan






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