From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 1 18:48:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21520 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 18:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21494 Wed, 1 May 1996 18:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA11015; Wed, 1 May 1996 18:41:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605020141.SAA11015@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 18:41:03 -0700 (MST) 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 In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at May 1, 96 09:40:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.