It works good on my machine, but not that much better than the IDE...
Someone wanted me to run bonnie, and so I did.
Machine is a AMD K6-2-350 with 128 meg ram.

Running bonnie on IBM ultrastar 4.5 gig UW-SCSI
bunke# bonnie
File './Bonnie.349', size: 104857600
Writing with putc()...done
Rewriting...done
Writing intelligently...done
Reading with getc()...done
Reading intelligently...done
Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec
%CPU
          100  8806 55.8  8473 15.5  2953  8.8 12709 75.8 12733 22.0 109.7
2.2

Running bonnie on IBM deskstar 10.1 gig IDE
bunke# cd /usr
bunke# bonnie
File './Bonnie.354', size: 104857600
Writing with putc()...done
Rewriting...done
Writing intelligently...done
Reading with getc()...done
Reading intelligently...done
Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec
%CPU
          100  8636 67.5  8370 20.3  2263 12.0 10753 79.5 10922 23.1  75.7
1.8
bunke#=20


Now, any clues on how to move the root partitions to the SCSI disk?

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