7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
11:17 a.m.
On Sunday 06 August 2006 01:12, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I finally used IDE on an Alpha for the first time this last week on one of
my new XP1000's. It wasn't stellar, but as I was booting from CD-ROM, I
didn't expect much.
I ran a Sun Ultra 10/300 for a while. Just replacing the *PATHETIC* IDE
drive (it wasn't even 5400RPM) with a 7200RPM drive was a *serious* speed
increase. Also aren't the IDE buses on both the Alpha's and Sun's ATA/33?
Zane
At 4:22 PM -0500 8/5/06, Scott Quinn wrote:
It's a poor IDE controller choice problem. DEC and Sun both chose the
CMD646 "back in the day", which is about the slowest piece of trash
that they could have used. Sticking a PCI ATA/100 card into an AlphaPC
164LX board makes ide speed really quite spectacular. I haven't tried
it on a Sun box (or G3 powermac, or...), but I'd expect the same
results there too.
Pat On the Macs: PIDE is horrible for doing more than
one thing at once.
Period.
Nothing new there, is there any platform where it isn't?