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Subject: Re: SCSI, U2W in particular?, and poor performance...
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 09:43:07 CST

Sander Steffann:
> Hi,
>
> > Did you do the math? In order for me to spend more time on this
> > discussion you will have to demonstrate a minimal amount of clue.
>
> Why is everybody doing so difficult about this instead of trying to help?

Excuse me?

> The guy mentioned that he replaced the SCSI disk in the fast machine with an
> IDE disk, and is still noticing a difference in favor of the IDE disk. This
> means that on the same installation/configuration, with the only difference
> the SCSI/IDE disk, there is a difference. He only asked if anybody had an
> idea what could cause this.

THE REPLY IS ALREADY IN THE FOLLOWUPS.

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

The reply has been given: I refer to the text that talks about disk
update rates and rotational latencies, and the texts on synchronous
versus asynchronous disk updates.

If those replies do not make sense, then the reader MUST acquire a
minimal amount of clue first. That I consider a reasonable request.

        Wietse