Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:40:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Cc: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, questions@freebsd.org, R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD suffer from the Intel RZ1000 IDE bug? Message-ID: <199509161640.KAA26168@hemi.com> In-Reply-To: <199509161357.JAA07352@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 16, 95 09:57:22 am
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> From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR> > > It seems that Terry Lambert said: > > > > Less CPU load ? > > > > > > Is why you buy SCSI instead of IDE. [stuff deleted] > But for a machine where you do not head real fast disk access, and > can live with a reasonable max of 2-3 Gig, SCSI can't compare to IDE for > a cheap fast solution. > > -coranth Yes, I'd go with SCSI for high end machines. Even so, the "reasonable max" for IDE systems will always go up. At least one manufacturer is developing a 3.4 gb EIDE drive, and some computers can take four IDE drives (two controllers). -Ade -------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - www: <http://hemi.com/>; --------------------------------------------------------------------
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