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by hinkley 634 days ago
The hard drive was running so slow I exclaimed “it’s almost like this drive is running in PATA mode.”

It was. Motherboard and CPU were newer than the VxWorks version and it was running in compatibility mode. We treated it like the previous hardware revision it was backward compatible with and 30% more throughput like magic. Exactly as predicted.