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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!rde!gator!syscon!news.cs.indiana.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!not-for-mail From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives Date: 23 Sep 1992 17:01:42 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <19r0h6INNp42@aludra.usc.edu> References: <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <19posaINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> <1992Sep23.212547.15460@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > I personally wouldn't buy an IDE because of geometry translation, >and there's one Maxtor SCSI drive, so far, in the same boat. I like the >UFS caching and optimization to actually result in a speedup, and it >can't on a geometry translated drive (see my other tirade 8-)). this would have been really cool to know before i plopped down $400 on an IDE, i would have come up with the extra $100 for the scsi controller, and went with that. Does the geometry translation problem in the other triad just result in a loss of intended performance gains, or can it result in freaky things happening to files and filesystems? > Terry Lambert > terry_lambert@npd.novell.com > terry@icarus.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me > Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------