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SubjectRe: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? Fibre Channel of course!
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Followup to:  <366B5AE8.938F0D84@usa.net>
By author: Agus Budy Wuysang <supes-1@usa.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > I think currently spinning SCSI hard disks on the world, either in servers
> > > or workstation, either in Unix/Linux or NT, is 50-pin old guys, no DPT disk
> >
> > And as my stats showed for real work even old 5400 rpm fast scsi on a
> > now discontinued adapter (the BT946) beats current UDMA IDE for real world
> > compiles. You "think". I've "measured"
>
> If it were supported under Linux :)
>

Huh? BT-946 is a BusLogic adapter; the whole Mylex/BusLogic series of
adapters are extremely well-supported under Linux. The current
adapters are the BT-948 (narrow) or BT-958W (wide), although I'd expect to
see a new one with Ultra-2 support out really soon.

-hpa

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