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From: pyeatt@.cs.colostate.edu (Larry Pyeatt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI (was Re: Linux vs BSD)
Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:23:53 -0700
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
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In article <5c8a39$7tn@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
|> : Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> writes:
|> : > Todays IDE drives are not much slower than SCSI drives
Please amend that to "Todays IDE drives are not much slower than
yesterday's SCSI drives." ;)
|> this is true. I routinely sustain >6 MB/s on EIDE with mundane
|> motherboards and drives. that's with busmastering, of course,
|> so there's no significant CPU overhead.
While a modern SCSI system can sustain > 16MB/s and my 5 year old
SCSI controller and drives can sustain > 8MB/s
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