From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: Drive performance question Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1992 11:12:00 +0000
In article <BwA52A.LrM@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct17.021516.19313@mcs.gvsu.edu> wissner@perlis.mcs.gvsu.edu> (Jim Wissner) writes:
>>
>>I preferr to stick with SCSI (because of compatibility w/ different
>>machines) but would I get better performance out of Linux with an
>>IDE drive?
>
> In the short term - yes.
>
> In the long term - no. The next generation of scsi drivers hold the
>promise of a pretty amazing throughput. Until the next generation of scsi
>drivers is available, you are stuck with the old ones, for which the> throughput
>is (to put it modestly) modest.
>
>-Eric
>--
>Eric Youngdale
>
>
Any hints on just how amazing the throughput will be with the next generation
sxsi drivers
anthony
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