First post, by vetz
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Been playing around this this baby today:
I don't have the LBA BIOS, so it was a PITA to get running in Windows 3.11 with 32bit disk and file access with a 2GB FAT16 partition. So I've benched it on a newer 80GB ATA133 Samsung drive and a Connor CFS210A 210MB IDE drive.
SYSTEM:
AMD Am5x86 at 133 MHz
Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 rev. 2.0 with 1024kb cache
Number Nine 9GXE64 2MB VLB (S3 Vision 864)
1x32MB of FPM 60ns
WinBench96 Diskmark (32bit file and disk access on all controllers)
Samsung drive:
900 points DC4030VL-2 VLB with 16MB cache
1250 points with generic ISA IDE controller (no BIOS)
1280 points with generic VLB IDE controller (no BIOS)
1840 points with Adaptec AVA-2625VL EIDE controller
Connor drive:
610 points DC4030VL-2 VLB with 16MB cache
501 points with generic ISA IDE controller (no BIOS)
520 points with generic VLB IDE controller (no BIOS)
545 points with Adaptec AVA-2625VL EIDE controller
I'm really surprised of the results! It's a performance increase on the slower drive (significant!), but the opposite on the modern one. I thought VLB controllers, especially with cache memory would score higher on the modern drive! Then again, maybe the WinBench96 Diskmark is not the best benchmark to test this, and there could be some configuration problems. I'm gonna install Windows95 and see if I get the same results there. I'll also bench some SCSI drives and add them to the results (with ISA and VLB). Have another VLB IDE controller from Buslogic on the way in the mail which I can bench to see if it's a general problem.