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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!well!barrnet.net!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: NetBSD VESA IDE support ?? Message-ID: <1994Aug17.193935.26305@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <32r3bm$ql7@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 19:39:35 GMT Lines: 31 Thomas J. Trebisky (tom@canopus.as.arizona.edu) wrote: [del] : 1) Dumb little "IDE interface" with I/O, basically an ISA bus : IDE interface. I feel sure this will work, but it won't take : any advantage of the VESA bus which is sad. Works fine. : 2) Dumb VESA-IDE interface. I understand that cards of this : sort are available for $79.00 or so. Works fine and somewhat faster. : 3) Smart VESA-IDE interface with 2M of cache ($249 with RAM). Definite waste of money for unix systems. I doubt you would get any better performance than option 2). I would try to get the BT VESA controller if you truly want good disk io performance and better interactive performance. IDE drives work fine but the system gets a little bit choppy interactively when the drives are being accessed heavily. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------