Hi,
I was looking for a way to add SSD to my laptop, while keeping the capacity
of the hard disk (250G) available. I spotted a CF->Cardbus card in a shop
and found that it was supported by pata_ninja32 and delkin_cb. The card is
branded Delock, it identifies as: "Workbit Corporation Device [1145:f021]".
What I didn't realize then was that the drivers only offer PIO support.
With a Transcend 16G 133x CF card, I can get the card to write at ~3Mb/s
and read at ~6-7Mb/s sequential with the old IDE driver, which would be
fine were it not for the fact that it makes the system lag like mad, using
100% CPU.
In Windows it gets ~10Mb/s perfomance with <25% CPU load.
With the perf it has in Windows, it would make an excellent root drive and
a great upgrade path to SSD for slightly older laptops like mine.
The windows driver is 27Kb, the OSX one is ~100Kb. Somewhere in those 27K
is something that will make it perform great on linux, all it would take is
someone with a lot more clue than me to take a look at it.
Anyone willing to take a look? Alan?
Thanks,
bbee
Windows benchmark:
Sequential Read : 10.806 MB/s
Sequential Write : 8.047 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 10.728 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 1.537 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 7.408 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 0.013 MB/s
Test Size : 100 MB
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