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Darryl Okahata writes:
;->     Are you using softupdates and DMA?  While SCSI is great, you really 
;->need multiple drives to take full advantage of SCSI.  With your typical
;->1- or 2-drive system, IDE drives shouldn't be significantly slower than
;->SCSI.

My tests show different - see <URL:
http://www.phone.net/home/mwm/disktest/disktest.html >. If there's
something I can do to improve the performance of the IDE drive, I'd
love to hear it.

	<mike


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