Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Linux on AMD K6 | Date | 11 Jul 1997 00:06:03 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.E0wmP62-0005t9-00@miriam.fuller.edu>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@miriam.fuller.edu> wrote:
>B. allow interrupts during transfer (hdparm command) > >IDE is faster and more stable than SCSI especially with modern motherboards.
Depends on the hardware. For consumer gear, IDE is about as quick and reliable as SCSI (comparing various Maxtor and WD IDE drives to IBM DORS32160 drives driven by Mylex Buslogic 948's), but if money is no object, IDE doesn't even field competitors to some of the obscene SCSI hardware out there (a DPT raid controller driving a battery of Seagate Cheetahs, anyone? I don't even think anyone makes a 7200 rpm IDE drive yet, let alone a 10,000 rpm one.)
____ david parsons \bi/ My transit newsfeed uses a DMA'ed IDE drive for \/ databases, and it only goes down these days for hardware exchanges.
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