> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 02:43:31PM -0800, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
> > Performance is going to *suck* with 5 IDE disks, assuming of course you
> > can actually get 3 IDE controllers to work in the same box.
>
> OK, what's the bottleneck here? The track-to-track seeks, bandwidth,
> cpu use seem to be reasonable on top-line ide vs. scsi disks. The
> drivers? what?
controller. ide doesn't (usually) have a deidicated processor to get the
data off the ide bus to memory, scsi usually does.
there was a LONG thread on scsi vs ide a few months back, i suggest you
read it, so that we don't have to go thru another run of that thread..
dave
