Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? Fibre Channel of course! | Date | 7 Dec 1998 20:08:10 GMT |
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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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