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Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970808074206.3907C-100000@haywire.csuhayward.edu> from BURTON SAMPLEY at "Aug 8, 97 08:00:38 am"
To: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu (BURTON SAMPLEY)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 18:10:38 +0200 (MEST)
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In reply to BURTON SAMPLEY who wrote:
> 
> As for the comparison of EIDE and SCSI, wouldn't make world times be a
> better benchmark?  With a P5-133 (on an ASUS P/I P55T2P4), 128MB 60NS EDO
> RAM, 1.6 & 3.1 EIDE drives, the last time I did make world (around July 1,
> with nothing else running) it took about 5.5 hours.  I seem to recall
> faster times from people with similar hardware but using SCSI disks.  To
> me, make world is more of a 'real world' type of measurement for the
> drive.

Hmm, on my HW (P6@233/64Mb/2*Maxtor84000A6) I got a 10% improvement from
~45mins to ~40mins for a make world...

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