On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:59:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > The fact that such results seemed impossible to achieve indicate a scheduling > problem with Linux software RAID and possibly block devices in general. You can see pretty good results but you'll need a real computer. Streaming I/O from an ATA133 drive will saturate a PCI 33/32bit bus so it takes a system with decent ram, bridges, fsb and multiple PCI busses or 64/66 slots