On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various > DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller > now bypasses the CPU too. DMA isn't the issue. Bandwidth is. As long as only one IDE device on a chain can be performing a command at a given moment, SCSI will always win. Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to decide. -- Marc Wilson | It is better to remain childless than to father msw@cox.net | an orphan.
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