7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
11:10 a.m.
On Sunday 06 August 2006 01:12, Zane H. Healy wrote:
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
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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?