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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE hard drive/CD-ROM Date: 17 Aug 1996 12:39:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4v4ei2$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960815214948.23515A-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E David Zakai <zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu> wrote: > The EIDE system is several hundred dollars cheaper. Comparable EIDE disks are almost as expensive as their SCSI counterparts. You don't need a multi-hundred dollar AHA2940, a cheap NCR (now Symbios Logic) 53C810 will give you the same performance. FreeBSD doesn't support EIDE as such, only PIO-mode IDE. I've seen that an i586/100 with a SCSI subsystem easily outperforms an i586/166 with IDE disks for disk-intensive operations like a ``make world''. I can continue to play XBoing on the SCSI machine, while this is almost impossible on the IDE system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)