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- From: andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann)
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- Subject: Re: Disk Drive Purchase?
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- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 09:50:02 CDT
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- amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:
-
- > 2. It a recent microsoft technical seminar, we were presented with the
- > following info, fact or fiction, I don't know for sure... The 32 bit
- > disk swapping enhancement of windows 3.1, will _never_ be compatible
- > with existing scsi drives or controllers. A ESDI driver is being worked
- > on, and may be available sometime. Sometime may or may not = Never.
- > ESDI drives have the advantage that as you have more money, and things
- > come down in price, faster and faster controllers (cached controllers,
- > etc...) can be purchased.
-
- That's odd. My computer has a 110M ESDI with an Ultrastor 12F controller.
- It runs 32-bit access with no problems. On the other hand, the controller
- responds to many of the IDEINFO type programs. Maybe Windows thinks it's an
- IDE.
-
- > 3. IDE drives and controllers, could already be windows 32 bit disk access
- > compatible. IDE drives and controllers are about as fast as they are
- > ever going to be, or are capable of being. However, they do have plenty
- > of throughput, and i/o headroom for faster systems, today. They will
- > start showing age, as systems keep doubling in speed, and larger and
- > larger software becomes available. On the other side, the tremendous
- > cost of ESDI drives and controllers will be a serious drawback to the
- > wide acceptance of these systems.
-
- ???? IDE drives are only using a fraction of the power available to them.
- With their full 16-bit parallel access, you are limited only by the bus
- speed. I wonder if there are any drives that really tax the bus, yet.
-
- Does anyone know if there is going to be a 32-bit version of IDE for EISA
- or even local-bus??
-
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