From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 18:00:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21007 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 18:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20522; Wed, 27 May 1998 17:57:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA01346; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:27:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980528102719.D342@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:27:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, lfloyd@sonic.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility with Ultra IDE drives? References: <19980527161700.G24133@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:56:10PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 May 1998 at 13:56:10 -0700, Doug White wrote: > It may be time to move this .. > >>> Yeah, but were you doing anything at the time? >> >> Making the world. > > No, I meant were you doing anything interactive, ie web browsing? If I had done anything like that, it would have completely falsified the timing results. >>> IDE kills interactive response. >> >> Not true. What gives you that idea? > > 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. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message