On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:56:02PM -0800, sudog@sudog.com wrote:
> 
> definitely a common thing to hear. Unfortunately the CPU hit I am
> forced into taking with IDE is horrendous. Comparing two cpu-intensive
> cgi sites, one w/ scsi and one w/out, I can definitely feel the
> difference.

What is it that causes the difference in CPU load between IDE and SCSI?
IDE uses DMA just like SCSI, so...  Tagged queuing?

  -jm