From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 12 17:02:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA04269 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04242 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA16704; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 20:02:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 20:02:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Charles Tassell cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI vs EIDE In-Reply-To: <199512121028.GAA15284@phoenix.isn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Charles Tassell wrote: > I'm setting up an ISP for a guy who REALLY wants to use EIDE 4 drives > (transfer rate around 12 meg/s I think he said) Now considering the fact that > all PCI boards come with build in EIDE controllers in them, why is everyone so > big on SCSI? (e)ide nags the hell out of the cpu. look mommy i got another block! oh, oh, oh, and now i have another. scsi, especially with decent sized on-drive cache and tagged queuing, justs reads the data and then says "ahem, i have your 400 kB here" jmb Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG