| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 17 May 2000 at 15:04:45 |
| Subject: | Re: scsi vs ide |
On 17-May-00, Don Cox wrote:
> There have been lots of updates of both SCSI and IDE over the years.
> At any time, the latest version of SCSI is typically around 30%
> "faster" than the latest IDE. An old version of SCSI could be much
> slower than the latest IDE. The SCSI in your A2000 was probably an
> old version, and the ZorroII bus is slow. The SCSI on a Phase5
> accelerator card would be much faster.
>
> The speed of a drive is not a single figure. For most tasks, the seek
> time is more important than the rate at which data streams off the
> disk. The operating system and file system have a big influence on
> results.
Sorry, but the native Amiga SCSI (+IDE) controllers *(Hardware)*
is permanently hard-wired into PIO Mode-0 ......
Software won't help, end of story..........
Unless of course, you have a 3rd party controller.
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Colin Wenzel. Australia.
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OS 3.5, EGS Spectrum.
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