Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Please Advise: SCSI vs. IDE | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:50:29 +0100 (BST) |
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> Don't get me wrong, IDE is just fine (I have only IDE drives in my box), > it's just that IDE can't cut it under a loaded enviroment, and it makes > things worse (you can't service interupts if your doing an IDE transfer, > you can if your waiting on a SCSI transfer).
Bus mastering IDE like the triton is a lot better than existing IDE, but you still cannot queue up multiple tasks for a drive, you cannot seek one drive while doing disk I/O on the other, you can only have two drives per controller.
Triton IDE is a passable workstation level disk subsystem. Put 8Gb of disk on an IDE box and try a full usenet feed and end user service. Then try it with a pair of buslogic scsi controllers and SCSI disk instead of a pair of IDE controllers
Alan
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