Re: Alpha Core 3

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

On 03/26/2007 06:20 AM, Jon_norstog wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:40 +0200, Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
> > im just installing on my newly upgraded 21164SX board, now with an
> > AHA-2940 U2W adapter... i/o performance seems to double against an 40G
> > ide disk.... i will never use the onboard-ide again.....
> michael, & list:
>
> This is still true, even with the improvements in IDE/ATA/SATA drives.
> With SCSI you get a much more robust protocol for error-checking data
> transfers on the fly.
>
> I have noticed some companies are offering cheap servers with SATA or
> PATA drive arrays. I hope someone wakes up over that.

And usually; Good SCSI controller do not eat your cpu :-)

-of