On 14 Mar, this message from jeramy b smith echoed through cyberspace: > The biggest problem is that most pmac IDE controllers perform poorly in > Linux. I am not sure if this is the fault of our drivers or the Apple > hardware or both but swapping 20MB of memory on the fly gives you a real > performance hit. (Much more so than doing it on an x86 with a well supported > ata66 card).
Well, my experience is that Apple will often use medium-to-low performance parts (disks mostly), except maybe in top-of-the-line machines. The same holds true for their integrated SCSI controllers, that were _always_ the slowest around. Don't know for the IDE controllers, though... But than again, if you want a high-performance low-cost hard disk system, look at things like the Promise Ultra/66 card (two Ata/66 buses on one PCI card) that works perfectly well under Linux on the PPC. If you have enough free PCI slots, you can add many of them ;-) Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
