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From: graphix@iastate.edu (Kent A Vander Velden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCASI or IDE HD?
Date: 10 Aug 94 15:07:35 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <salem.137.2E48D259@hauk.hsr.no> salem@hauk.hsr.no (Salem, Lazaro) writes:
>Hi,
>I have a bought a PC-clone,i486/DX33 Mhz, with 16Mb RAM (60 ns), 256Kb cache,
>ISA bus + 2 VL bus on board with 256 Kb cache, 2 FDD (3,5/1.4Mb & 5.25/1.2Mb),
>-> SCASI Adapter Card (ADAPTEC 1542CF),
>-> 2 IDE HD controllers
>(+ ATI Ultra Graphic card w/1 Mb VRAM and 256 Kb VEGA + CD-rom SONY,
> + Sounblaster Pro + ...).
>But.. I haven't buy the Hard Disk yet and I was considering buying
>a Quantum 420Mb.
>I am not sure about the convenience or not of buying a SCASI or an IDE disk.
>I can get any of them at the same price (almost), and since I have both
>IDE and SCASI controllers I wonder what other considerations shoud I take to
>make my mind.
>As far as I understood (was told) there would not be any sensible difference
>for a one or two HD stations ("the botleneck is the bus speed" they said).
>I plan to have both BSD386 (UNIX) (on the main partition) and
>a secondary DOS partition.
>Any suggestion?
>Thanks,
>Lazaro
>P.S. Preferably e-mail directly to my account, to avoid noise in the net.
SCASI?
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Kent Vander Velden
graphix@iastate.edu