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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:31:01 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI)
Message-ID:  <19970907143101.34175@keltia.freenix.fr>
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According to Søren Schmidt:
> situation has changed ALOT in the last year. The ATA/ATAPI
> protocol is getting cleaned up (but is still quite messy), they
> have gotten real usable DMA in there, they are working on
> overlapped cmd's (not quite there yet, but devices do exist).

Why the Hell wasting time turning ATA/ATAPI into another SCSI thingy, but
different ? Why no going with SCSI ?

> I have done LOTS of tests on my humble little system which
> clearly shows that EIDE/ATA4 has come of age...

Why reinventing the wheel I'd say ?

If SCSI was sold like IDE drives are, they'd get cheaper too... 

I must miss something. There was a time where SCSI was for high-end systems
and IDE for smaller ones. Life was simple. Now they're turning IDE into
SCSI. WHY ?

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Tue Aug 26 21:05:09 CEST 1997



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