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From: gienger@iris.rz.uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support EIDE interfaces?
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Date: 24 May 96 04:53:25 GMT
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John S. Dyson (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote:
: The EIDE disk drives work fine with FreeBSD, and you generally get significant
: performance benefits. The IDE CDROM code is green, and the IDE tape code
: is AFAIK non-existent. I personally use 540MByte, 1.6GByte and 2.5GByte
: EIDE drives on my ASUS TP4N MB, with performance of 2MBytes/sec up to 9MBytes
: per second depending on drive, etc...
And still the question remains why this &/(&/&"/(("( PC Hardware vendors
did invent that sluggish "EIDE"... Why just they did not switch all to SCSI?
In most PCI mainboard specs there is written that a NCR SCSI chip has to be
on board.... Most hardware vendors does not sell their boards with that
chip... Why? Because PC hardware is sort of braindead and braindead vendors
want to save that little amount of money for that chip.
Sorry for the off-topic, but these are things I really can't understand...
Pascal
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