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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7995 comp.windows.x.i386unix:6578 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!tulane!uno.edu!CAJHO From: cajho@uno.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine... Date: 15 Jan 1994 21:42:38 GMT Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2h9o0e$fu1@news.cs.tulane.edu> References: <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <J6y7Fc1w165w@oasys.pc.my>,<2h9d9d$ddl@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Reply-To: cajho@uno.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: jazz.ucc.uno.edu > 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... Yup. I run a Linux system w/SCSI, and was startled to see a friend's IDE system not echo my keystrokes immediately during compiles, etc. Yuk! IDE is to SCSI as MS-DOS is to Linux, think of it that way.<g> (IDE=yucky backwards-compatibility kluge)