2.02 386/ix and SCSI drives

[Karl Denninger]

In article <25c973e3:497.4comp.unix.i386;1 at nstar.UUCP> larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>You'll like it.  We get upwards of 1MB/sec (megaBYTE) through the file
>>system with this board..... with Maxtor 4380S drives.
>>
>>8760's are slightly slower (I know this doesn't make any sense).  There are
>
>How about Miniscribe 9380S drives?

They don't have read-ahead cache, from what I hear.

Thus, they are pitifully slow compared to the competition.  They may be
cheap, yes, but in this case you do get what you do (or don't) pay for!

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