From owner-freebsd-current  Mon Sep  8 02:18:51 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA20046
          for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 02:18:51 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA20041
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 02:18:48 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1])
	by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA02729;
	Mon, 8 Sep 1997 02:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199709080916.CAA02729@rah.star-gate.com>
X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96
To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>,
        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Sep 1997 23:23:52 PDT."
             <199709080623.XAA10617@MindBender.serv.net> 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 02:16:51 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

>From The Desk Of "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" :
> The standard qualifiers apply.  This is one guys' experience, on a
> single system, with a small number of drives.  Your mileage and karma
> may vary.
> 

I have to say the same thing over here. IDE disk drives over here
tend to go belly up and my scsi drives tend to work a lot longer.

Of course, there will be others who will have the opposite experience and 
I am merely stating my personal experience both at home and at
work.

	Amancio