>From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to offer better performance than SCSI. HD manufacturers still make their best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK. UDMA's very cheap though. ;)
-TL On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > From: butch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 09:17:44 -0500 > Subject: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi? > > Hello, > > I have been planning to put together my ultimate linux machine and and when > i get to the disks system there seems to be a successor to scsi for the > ultimate price/performance. has anyone used an ultra drive and how does the > actual perfomance compare to uw scsi? > > thanks, > > allan > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > --(fortune.sig)-- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" -- Douglas Hofstadter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .