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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AHA1505,10,20 vs. ATAPI IDE CDROM, and EISA Date: 19 Feb 1996 23:45:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4gb21u$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4firfg$7j4@spectator.cris.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:46995 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14039 dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o) writes: > We have a SB16 SCSI which has the AHA 1510 on board, intended > for a CDROM. Given that the 1510 is not a bus mastering SCSI > controller, why and under what circumstances would the performance > and CPU load be better using a SCSI CDROM drive with the SB16 over a > (cheaper) IDE CDROM. The driver for the aic6260 is likely to be more stable than the rather green ATAPI CDROM support. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)