Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 18:41:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, koshy@india.hp.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly Message-ID: <199605020141.SAA11015@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960501213802.8100C-100000@gilligan.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at May 1, 96 09:40:33 pm
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> > 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). > > 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. 1) You need to write a driver 2) ATAPI CDROMs will *still* uses SCSI commands, because that's what they do. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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