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Date: Fri,  5 Sep 1997 03:20:43 +0100
From: Guido Kollerie  <gkoller@pi.net>
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) 
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> > So, any configurations out there significantly faster than 3 hours
> > for a "make world" of 3.0-current?  I doubt if any of those systems
> > use EIDE disks, but, I have been wrong many times before.  Results?
> 
> Guess again :) My system P6@233/64M/2*4G Maxtor EIDE does a 
> make world from -current in some 65 mins (that is 1 hour 5 mins) :)
> 
> So tell me again that SCSI is faster :)

I'm sure the figures would be rather different if we had an updated
Buslogic driver. The current driver has no support for Command Tagged
Queuing and DMA. Nevertheless 65 min. is really impressive for an EIDE
system.

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Guido Kollerie