[geeks] Public Apology

[Ryn]

What IDE drives and controllers were you using? My promise
controller with two WD 100GB 8MB cache Ultra100 drives
scream.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Public Apology


> on 7/13/02 5:23 PM, Ryn at mattyml at daemons.net wrote:
>
> > For desktop machines, I see no reason to purchase SCSI disks. Most IDE
> > drives support command queuing and bus mastering (depends on the IDE
> > controller). What I/O advantage are you seeing in comparison to your friend?
> >
> IDE blows dog. YOU may be happy with slow disk I/O but I am not. My old
> desktop machine was light years faster with UW SCSI than it was with IDE
> crap. I am a little unhappy with the Disk I/O on this G3 Mac (IDE) and will
> be putting an UW SCSI setup inside....zOOOOm!
>
> Mike N
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