Slow and steady web browsing

Session duration : 105min
Average power : 218W
Average HR : 117bpm
Reference power : 117bpm=208W
Cadence avg : 87rpm
kCal : 1311 (polar 1160)
Liquid : 650ml water
No food.
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From the chart it may not show up very good but you can see a steady drop off in power, while the HR stayed stable, with a drop of around 8-9% in 105 minutes. Spent the time browsing the net and put in a few brief spots to test the legs a little (stopping when HR went above 150). Stopped too early really (not the right feeling), although for now it will do and see how the week progresses. Either way, done enough for today.... burnt off the 4 doughnuts at least :-)

Yesterday I tried out the 4 way compact flash array again after finding some even log entries that referenced an old driver (even though it is the most recent from the motherboard site). So, having tracked down the driver chip manufacturers website and uploading the latest driver I reconfigured the drive again. The drive is made up out fo 2x dual channel IDE to compact flash adapters, each with a 4GB card in (4 cards in total) to give 16GB of flash space.

The drives were recognised as DMA2 for the first pair (older cards) and UDMA 4 for the second pair. The first pair of flash cards, when accessed individually reported around 13-15MB/sec, while the second pair reported 20MB/sec flat, each.

Tested out 3 configurations :
1. 2 drive span across the DMA 2 pair
2. 2 drive span across the UDMA pair
3. 4 drive span across all 4 drives

Each drive was configured with 100MB space usage on each card for each drive array.

The copy speed for all of them (write) was slower than the individual speed at 17MB/sec for the 4 card array and the DMA pair returned only 7MB/sec, while the UDMA pair reported around 11MB/sec.

Interesting result and a bit strange, although I'll try them outa again with another 2 4GB cards that are UDMA compatible, so that the 4 card array in theory has no timing issues between the array...