| From: | Michael Bourne |
| Date: | 17 May 2000 at 16:13:29 |
| Subject: | Re: scsi vs ide |
Hello Colin,
>> 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.
...or Commodore Amiga bus mastering, DMA capable, SCSI-2, A4091
scsi host adaptor. The latter performs considerably faster than
the native IDE which as you affirm only does PIO mode 0 transfers.
Michael
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