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- From: lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Hardware-cache or Software-Cache?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.085439.149@csghsg5a.bitnet>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 08:54:39 GMT
- Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
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- Hi, netters!
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- I've got an offer of a second-hand 486-EISA-PC but I still need
- to buy a EISA-SCSI-Host-Adapter for the System.
- I've got two questions concerning the translation rate:
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- 1) What is faster, a Hardware-Cache or a Software-Cache?
- to say, what's faster:
- - Host-Adapter with 4 Mb Cache
- - or a Software-Cache of 4 Mb
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- (- Host-Adapter with 4 Mb Cache + Software-Cache of 4 Mb
- - or Software-Cache of 8 Mb)
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- 2) How faster is SCSI-II compared with normal SCSI?
- Is there really a difference (and how much faster is it) concerning
- the translation rate?
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- Thanks in advance!
-
- Luke
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