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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad
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Regarding the difference in CPU utilization, could it be - I don't
know the driver internals - that it's the bounce buffer technique
that costs CPU while the SCSI controller uses bus master transfers all
the time? Or were you comparing VLB EIDE vs. SCSI ?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Mar 19
17:20:44  1995     root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386