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Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?



Is Ultra ATA same as Ultra DMA and Ultra DMA/33 ?
And if a drive is ultra DMA do I have to get a different adapter than the
EIDE built into the pentium mother board ?


Chuma


Tommy Lakofski wrote:

> >From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to
> offer better performance than SCSI.  HD manufacturers still make their
> best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK.  UDMA's very cheap though. ;)
>
> -TL
>
> On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote:
>
> > From: butch <butch@maestro.com>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 09:17:44 -0500
> > Subject: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been planning to put together my ultimate linux machine and and when
> > i get to the disks system there seems to be a successor to scsi for the
> > ultimate price/performance. has anyone used an ultra drive and how does the
> > actual perfomance compare to uw scsi?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > allan
> >
> >
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