Subject: Re: Ultra ATA support?
To: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/26/1997 03:08:32
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Brian C. Grayson wrote:

>   We are planning on purchasing some IDE hard drives which
> support the relatively new Ultra ATA 33MB/sec mode.

Is there even that much point to this? I've not seen good 7200 rpm
IDE hard drives, yet, and even the high-end 5400 RPM drives (SCSI
or IDE) can barely saturate an old 10 MBps Fast Narrow SCSI-II bus
when used in pairs.

cjs

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