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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
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: 24 Jan 1997 12:27:44 -0800
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In article <87g1zrb7gv.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>,
Zach Heilig  <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> wrote:
>
>More than likely, he had 4 or 5 disks on the same controller, with
>some sort of concatenated filesystem (FreeBSD does this).

Sure, but that's hardly a fair comparison with the fellow who said
he was getting six meg a second off a *single* IDE drive.

cjs
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