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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly
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On Wed, 1 May 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> 	there is not a debate.
> 
> 	my 486dx2-66 with 16MB and scsi drives will perform a
> 	"make world" faster than several 586-75's with 16+MB and
> 	*IDE* drives.  a 586-90, assuming long integer data set of
> 	100kB, is over twice as fast as my cpu.  but the ide drives
> 	slow the compiles horribly.  ( use Hint to get the cpu computation
> 	speeds http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/scl/HINT/HINT.html)
> 
> 	now maybe its the driver, maybe its the IDE drives themselves.
> 	i aint re-writing the ide driver, so i dont care (at this point).
> 
> 	dare, jis eyent naw dabayt.

Jonathan, I was looking at the new Tyan MB's, they say that they use IDE 
bus mastering, and claim a major speed increase.  I am not sure (I am a 
SCSI bigot myself) but maybe yours claims of SCSI dominanace over 
IDE won't be so automatically true shortly.

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