From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 28 11:04:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19954 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19905 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02626; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Lehey cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility with Ultra IDE drives? In-Reply-To: <19980528102719.D342@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org moving to chat ... On Thu, 28 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > My IDE drive in gdi. You can tell when it's working. The SCSI drive > > could do a full search on itself and I'd never know it. > > What kind of transfers are you doing? With DMA, there's very little > difference. Hm, I'll have to demo a UltraDMA computer. I'm only on standard IDE. Is UltraDMA tothe point where it actually is a win? Originally the critics were saying there was no win with ultradma. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message