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- From: blean@rwb.esd.sgi.com (Bob Blean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
- Message-ID: <pk3euuk@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 01:37:00 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.131810.23736@panix.com> <1992Sep05.182115.2790@zeos.com> <pg65pkg@zola.esd.sgi.com> <pjvgi5c@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- In article <pjvgi5c@fido.asd.sgi.com>, pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close) writes:
- |> Even ISA is faster than all but the fastest hard drives. ISA can do up to 4
- |> megabytes/second, whereas most hard drives are in the 1-2 MB/s range. This
- |> means that wether your hard drive controller is on the ISA bus or local bus,
- |> your hard drive performance will be the same.
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- That wouldn't be so for a cached controller that got a hit, would it?
- In such a case, I should think the ISA bus a limiting factor.
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- Of course, that presumes you can get a cached controller for your local bus.
- Or that your motherboard controller is cached and can get pretty directly into
- memory.
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- -- Bob
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