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

[Jim Ray]

> > 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

[Jim Ray pontificates] doesn't average access time account for seek and
read?  I'm thinking a 10 ms access time >> 1/(66 MHz)