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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2000 22:11:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI 2x-4x slower than IDE? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005212200001.528-100000@linux.local>
In-Reply-To: <200005211721.MAA66868@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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On Sun, 21 May 2000, David Kelly wrote:

> Kenneth W Cochran writes:
> > Hello -scsi,
> >=20
> > (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?
>=20
> I think your Win9x friend should look into the caching mode page=20
> settings on his new IBM drive. New IBM drives that I've seen have=20
> shipped with caching disabled. Its not fair to compare unless the=20
> caching is the same on all.

Given the differences in elapsed time that has been reported:
  4 min for old IDE
  8 min for old SCSI
  > 15min for new SCSI
I am not sure that write behind caching by the drive is the issue.
Btw, an O/S is also supposed to cache disk data and sort requests.
=20
> > 2.  What does this imply (or not imply) for FreeBSD?
>=20
> It means to accurately apply it to FreeBSD you have to try it.

And I bet that either differences would be just reversed, or issue,=20
if any, would be quickly fixed.

  G=E9rard.



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