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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ames!ncar!csn!yuma!lamar.ColoState.EDU!sandylam From: sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Sandy Lam) Subject: Re: SCASI or IDE disk? Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <CuJL5C.z7M@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 20:34:23 GMT References: <salem.136.2E48D0EF@hauk.hsr.no> Nntp-Posting-Host: lamar.acns.colostate.edu Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 22 well, i currently am getting 15 megs/sec on my IDE controller. It's also DMA bus mastering. And the next level of IDE (ATA-3) will blow away this one in terms of performance and be 100% compatible. It's PCI btw, and relocatable so each IDE controller chip handles 4 devices and does not conflict with any others. also btw, Western Digitals suck rocks at high end performance. best i can get out of those puppies is 7 megs/sec. the downside? i'm developing for these chips, and they're not out yet. but soon they'll be integrated on MANY major brand name motherboards. not that this really helps solve that one dude's problem, but i just had to stick up for IDE. lots of ppl have been dogging it hard core saying it sucks performancewise and can't possibly ever be decent. btw, there are IDE CD ROMs and soon IDE ethernet controllers. SCSI's got a lot of hype going for it, but don't think IDE is going away any time soon.