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- From: flex@kuai.se (Anders Karlsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: EIDE vs. IDE , was: Reports from CeBit
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 13:57:10
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- In a message of 23 Mar 96 Mike Williams wrote to :
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- MW> Actually I think you're both right. EIDE boards drive 4 drives, but
- MW> they list it as two controllers. On a PC you can disable the secondary
- MW> controller if there's nothing connected to it. They are really two
- MW> separate controllers: you still set Master / Slave on a per controller
- MW> basis.
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- Hmm.. That's why SCSI is still the better option.
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- MW> However, each controller usually supports mode 3 and sometimes mode 4
- MW> transfers. I don't have any idea what that means, except that it's quite
- MW> a bit faster than standard IDE, which I think is mode 2. EIDE was an
- MW> improvement to basic IDE. The two things they needed to improve were
- MW> number of drives and speed of the drives. Since the circuitry in an IDE
- MW> controller is minimal, they just duplicated it to get the third and
- MW> fourth drive.
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- Hehe.. Minimal effort from developers.. Wonder where that apply? Intel?
- - "Well. We wanna make a new processor again. Heat is no problem.."
- - "OK. We'll do as usual. Strip this Pentium Pro from FP unit, duplicate
- it and add a FP-unit to that. Voila! We have ourselves a Septium!"
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- Anders Karlsson Dedicated Amiga User.
- flex@kuai.se PGP-key available on request.
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