Alpha Core 3

[Hoover, Tony]

IIRC, the IDE controller on the 164sx and 164lx boards was routed though the
ISA bus.  Works good enough for a CD-ROM (not CD-RW)drive.  Not much else.  


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-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Jon_norstog
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 11:20 PM
To: Linux on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: Alpha Core 3

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.

jn

 

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