home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: toad.stack.urc.tue.nl!not-for-mail
- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SCSI <-> IDE trouble?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 02:13:03 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
- Message-ID: <4gdo2f$ego@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>
- References: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960220174041.3168A-100000@storm.stud.unit.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: toad.stack.urc.tue.nl
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Tarjei Knapstad (tarjeik@stud.unit.no) wrote:
- : If I buy a SCSI controller for my 1200 (either PCMCIA, i.e Squirrel, or
- : for my Blizzard 1260 card), will the SCSI interface override the IDE
- : controller already fitted? (In other words - can I still get any use of
- : my IDE hard drive?) Or do I have to go SCSI all the way.
-
- In my 400 I use both scsi-drives and an ide-drive. There's just a new
- device, but they live happy next to each other.
-
- : Also, what are the (average) xfer rates for good SCSI HD's ?? (Are there
- : other limitations than just the SCSI interface ?). Currently I have
- : (according to the not so thrustworthy SysInfo) about 2 MB/s peak read on
- : my 545 MB Quantum IDE drive. How much will I gain with a good SCSI II??
-
- I'm not sure about that. With *very* fast drives and *very* fast controllers
- and *very* fast memory you can achieve something like 7-8Mb/s, but I doubt
- that these are real-life values., SYsinfo just does a linear direct-read...
-
- : Thanks to anyone who cares to answer me.
-
- Hey! That's me :-)
-
- : T.K. (1260 / 18MB RAM / 545 MB HD)
- Cool !
-
-
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-