From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun May 21 10:40:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC3637B90A for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 10:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-227.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.227]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e4LHePr05185; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:40:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA66868; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:21:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200005211721.MAA66868@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: SCSI 2x-4x slower than IDE? In-reply-to: Message from Kenneth W Cochran of "Sun, 21 May 2000 08:21:10 EDT." <200005211221.IAA01609@world.std.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:21:48 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kenneth W Cochran writes: > Hello -scsi, > > (Yes, the old SCSI vs IDE flamewar, but I'd like to avoid that, > thank you... :) [...] > 1. What's going on "here" in M$/Win9x? I think your Win9x friend should look into the caching mode page settings on his new IBM drive. New IBM drives that I've seen have shipped with caching disabled. Its not fair to compare unless the caching is the same on all. > 2. What does this imply (or not imply) for FreeBSD? It means to accurately apply it to FreeBSD you have to try it. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message