From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 00:50:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA27144 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:50:27 -0800 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA27137; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:50:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA09701; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:45:56 GMT Message-Id: <199503220045.AAA09701@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6alpha 2/16/95 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, faq@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:41:56 PST." <199503220841.AAA04565@ref.tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:45:54 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just made a simple test, this shows why IDE is inferior to SCSI for > FreeBSD: > > Western Digital 540 Caviar EIDE disk on IDE controller: > ------------------------------------------------------- > Quantum Empire 2100 SCSI-II disk on VL-buslogic controller Do the above drives have similar performance characteristics? Amancio