From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 4 06:14:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA17107 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:14:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from m4.stox.pr.mcs.net (stox.pr.mcs.net [204.137.243.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA17100 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.stox.pr.mcs.net [127.0.0.1]) by m4.stox.pr.mcs.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA01644; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:10:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:10:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Michael Smith , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2G SCSI disks? In-Reply-To: <199702041043.CAA22950@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > ... "close to the performance of an Ultra-SCSI disk" only if you don't > have any concurrency! There IS a difference. > > Remind yourself that there's a reason RAID towers don't use SCSI > drives... > > (Which is fine if you know what you're getting into, but don't truly > expect IDE to be able to do everything as well as SCSI, no matter what > the marketing people say.) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >