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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7984 comp.windows.x.i386unix:6551 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine... Date: 15 Jan 1994 18:39:41 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2h9d9d$ddl@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <J6y7Fc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <J6y7Fc1w165w@oasys.pc.my>, Othman Ahmad <othman@oasys.pc.my> wrote: >crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: > >Are you willing to pay almost double for no improvement in performance? >Mitusumi IDE is supported by Linux and sooner or later by FreeBSD. > >> SCSI Drives. You can have up to 7 per card instead of 2/card. They >> tend to be faster. They are... Just get them. ;) >> >Dont forget to buy supported SCSI adapters! > >You don't have compatibility and upgrade problems with IDE, the controller >is on the hard disk. Unless you need more than 2 hard disks, which I have come >across but my casing only support 2 easiliy. one thing that just about everybody forgets is that ide drives are -not- dma devices. thus, while transferring data, your machine can do nothing else. i had two ide drives on my system, and whenever i was doing a heavy compile [xfree ;-)], my machine would immediately become jerky. as soon as i switched to scsi, everything is as smooth as can be... mrarc e'm. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--