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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad
To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 03:06:01 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199503220841.AAA04565@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 22, 95 00:41:56 am
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said
> 
> I just made a simple test, this shows why IDE is inferior to SCSI for
> FreeBSD:
> 

Well, no-one doubted this but your test is a little unfair on EIDE. You may
still end up being right but until we have true EIDE support we can't really
judge how well it's going to perform.

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
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  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.