From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 09:37:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA08302 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:37:47 -0700 Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA08284 ; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:37:43 -0700 Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA26168; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:40:24 -0600 From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199509161640.KAA26168@hemi.com> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD suffer from the Intel RZ1000 IDE bug? To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:40:24 -0600 (MDT) Cc: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, questions@freebsd.org, R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk, sos@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509161357.JAA07352@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 16, 95 09:57:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 810 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From: Ollivier Robert > > It seems that Terry Lambert said: > > > > Less CPU load ? > > > > > > Is why you buy SCSI instead of IDE. [stuff deleted] > But for a machine where you do not head real fast disk access, and > can live with a reasonable max of 2-3 Gig, SCSI can't compare to IDE for > a cheap fast solution. > > -coranth Yes, I'd go with SCSI for high end machines. Even so, the "reasonable max" for IDE systems will always go up. At least one manufacturer is developing a 3.4 gb EIDE drive, and some computers can take four IDE drives (two controllers). -Ade -------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - www: --------------------------------------------------------------------