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Subject: Re: SCSI, U2W in particular?, and poor performance...
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 09:41:04 CST

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 03:44:48PM +0100, Sander Steffann wrote:

> And the only thing Brad, Rafi and Wietse do is telling him how stupid he
> is!! Only because he asked a simple question.

In the first semester of computer science I learned about spin wait times and
max. transfer rates. There are physical limits for HOW FAST a disk can
be.That particular IDE disk CANT be faster when it actually had to write
that data. It would have to write faster than it spins.

This implies some sort of cacheing/ansynchronous writing, which explains the
speedup. 

-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
NT vs UNIX, why UNIX:   It doesn't matter how big or hot your 
thing is at the moment if it doesn't stay up or perform.