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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 1995 12:18:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, faq@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why IDE is bad
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950322121300.14941C@haus.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199503220841.AAA04565@ref.tfs.com>

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On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> I just made a simple test, this shows why IDE is inferior to SCSI for
> FreeBSD:

here is my test of IDE using an EIDE disk on a VL/EIDE controler with 
dual channel... and using the patches submitted a while ago to use 32-bit 
data transfer of the vl/eide card...

> 	540868608 bytes transferred in 240 secs (2253619 bytes/sec)
> 
> Here is what "systat" tells me:
> 	 2.0%Sys  82.0%Intr  0.5%User  0.0%Nice 15.6%Idle
> 	|    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
> 	=+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

ok... mine was using a Conner CFA-850a (if I remeber right) only
        540868608 bytes transferred in 336 secs (1609728 bytes/sec)

but on a 486/33DX running at 40...  I never passed 14% on system... I 
don't have intr as I only am using 2.0... and I might add this was under 
a multiuser system...  and the adverage was about 5% sys...  it was 
generating about 3000 inters a second and near then end jumped up to 4000...

> 
> Quantum Empire 2100 SCSI-II disk on VL-buslogic controller:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> dd if=/dev/rsd0d of=/dev/null bs=64k count=8253
> 	8253+0 records in
> 	8253+0 records out
> 	540868608 bytes transferred in 110 secs (4916987 bytes/sec)
> 
> Here is what "systat" tells me:
> 	 5.6%Sys  20.6%Intr  0.2%User  0.0%Nice 73.6%Idle
> 	|    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
> 	===++++++++++
> 
> CONCLUSION:
> -----------
> The SCSI-controller transfers twice as much data in the same time, and
> uses only 25% of the CPU resources the IDE-controller needs.

was the IDE isa?  or using the same footing as the vl/bus SCSI?  not to 
flame or anything...  

John-Mark Gurney

gurney_j@efn.org -or-
gurney_j@4j.lane.edu -or-
Fido: John-Mark Gurney @ 1:152/56.2




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