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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: lmbench IDE anomaly
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>Anyway, the results showing SCSI being better than IDE are certainly
>valid.

No, they just show that a particular slow SCSI drive was better than a
particular slow IDE drive.

My results showed that a particular fast SCSI drive was just as bad as
a particular slow IDE drive.  There was a 26x speed reduction for both.

Bruce