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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto!news.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.microsoft.com!news From: "Jurgen Exner" <v-jurgex@microsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI (was Re: Linux vs BSD) Date: 25 Jan 1997 00:35:44 GMT Organization: Microsoft Corp. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <01bc0a57$b3296bc0$d69f389d@v-jurgex-main> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c8odp$14q@ravel.cs.colostate.edu> <5c97cd$f6h@cynic.portal.ca> <87g1zrb7gv.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <5cb600$jji@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.56.159.214 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154081 comp.os.linux.setup:93795 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5726 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2019 Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote in article <5cb600$jji@cynic.portal.ca>... > In article <87g1zrb7gv.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>, > Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> wrote: > > > >More than likely, he had 4 or 5 disks on the same controller, with > >some sort of concatenated filesystem (FreeBSD does this). > > Sure, but that's hardly a fair comparison with the fellow who said > he was getting six meg a second off a *single* IDE drive. Actually it is fair, because you can't do that with IDE! And that's the point in this discussion. SCSI allows you to setup a system, that has a significant higher performance than you can achive with an IDE system. jue -- The opinions expressed in this message are my own personal views and do not reflect the official views of Microsoft Corporation