begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:49:32PM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > If only everyone would've invested in SCSI back in the '80s... > > Given that the problem is head movement and disk rotational latency I'm > not sure how that would have helped much.
The CPU gets involved with IDE far more than with SCSI. You can fit a lot more SCSI disks on a controller, which means to add more spindles you just need to add more drives. Easy-peasy. DMA is just a bonus. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
