thats mostly due to command queing.. Unless you're using relatively new
ultra-160 drives, and a good controller its still possible fill up the
command queue relatively quickly with modern systems.. There are also
'modern' IDE controllers out there like 3ware cards that fix quite a
few issues like this (although they're primarily raid cards).
Only reason why I use scsi over IDE in my *servers* is that the warranty
and MTBF are usually 3 years or more, whereas on IDE they're 1 year.
On 26 Sep 2002 13:35:28 -0700
Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> He's right, but you're right too. :-)
> A properly tuned IDE works fine usually.
> However, all other things being equal, a disk connected via SCSI "feels"
> faster than the same HDD gear connected via IDE. The reason being the
> way SCSI talks with the rest of the system (lower CPU usage, etc).
>
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:52, Vincent Janelle wrote:
> > irrelevant and flamebait.
> >
> > Proper tuning of DMA settings will help, as well as making sure that using
> > the correct IDE driver is selected.
> >
> > hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 /dev/hd[a,b,c,etc] will turn on 32bit write support,
> > dma, and unmasked irq's.
> >
> > man hdparm of course before doing any of this, YMMV.
> >
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