From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 22 18:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-42.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DFC14CF8 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA02072; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:55:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Chris Piazza Cc: Andrew Heybey , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP nerd toy report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > Understood, I use a single 5400 RPM UDMA Ide disk with the new ATA drivers - > /usr/obj and /usr/src are on the same partition. I'm *extremely* pleased with > this system as my P166 took over 4 hours(!). I'd be interested in seeing what > a difference SCSI over IDE has in a buildworld. I doubt that the question is SCSI v. IDE. I know with my P166, I had horribly cheap "fast" narrow Quantum drives (3.2gb and 640mb) hooked to an aic7880, and with the PII/450, I've got a 13gb IDE (UDMA2)drive. rm -rf of /usr/obj runs much quicker with the UDMA drive... Sure top-of-the-line SCSI drives probably max out at faster speeds than the top-of-the-line IDE drives, but I imagine with softupdates and separate IDE busses, one could create a non diskbound PII (under buildworld conditions). - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message