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- From: gary.chan@compdyn.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Gary Chan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Local bus IDE or SCSI
- Message-ID: <4553.25.uupcb@compdyn.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 11:24:00 GMT
- Reply-To: gary.chan@compdyn.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Gary Chan)
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- Organization: Computer Dynamics - Vancouver B.C. - (604)986-9937 (604)255-9937
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- Fred J Mccall 575-3539 to All on 12-13-92 All about Re: Local bus IDE or
- SCSI
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- FJ>From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- FJ>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- FJ>Subject: Re: Local bus IDE or SCSI?
- FJ>Message-ID: <1992Dec11.201540.9903@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- FJ>Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:15:40 GMT
- FJ>
- FJ>In <CARL.92Dec7114825@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinz
- FJ>
- FJ>
- FJ>>>Oh, I don't know. IDE seems to make more sense for a VL slot. Why
- FJ>>>have a SCSI controller plugged into a VL slot that it can't possibly
- FJ>>>use the bandwidth of?
- FJ>
- FJ>>Everyone seems to be forgetting about caching controllers. If you
- FJ>>have a controller sitting out there with 4 meg, 8 meg (or even more)
- FJ>>then it can certainly go quite a bit faster than any SCSI II
- FJ>>limitation. In fact, I'd bet that it can probably go just about as
- FJ>>fast as main memory (since it uses exactly the same type of memory!).
- FJ>
- FJ>Assuming, of course, that you're getting cache hits with the
- FJ>controller. Under most multitasking OS's, it's a lot harder to get
- FJ>those cache hits because multiple stuff is running at once. The head
- FJ>tends to get to bounce around the drive, and the cache tends to get to
- FJ>read stuff over and over, just as if the cache is not there. The
- FJ>caching built into the file systems of multitasking OS's tends to be a
- FJ>better win than a caching controller, and a caching controller may
- FJ>actually slow you down.
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- Wouldn't that depend on how the caching software is implemented in the
- caching controller? Given the same memory cache size in either a caching
- controller and a system based cache, what would be the difference. The
- main difference I would see is that the system based cache would be able
- to access more 'relevant information'. How about CPU loading on the
- system based cache?
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