yes, yes, sustained streaming rates are high, but normal use involves a 
lot of seeks. queueing and reordering of commands and other more complex
bahviors are what make scsi and pals so much faster in real world performance
than IDE. if i'm streaming video, IDE is great.. if i'm ten users on a 
unix box, doing mail,web, and nameserving at the same time, IDE doesnt
work too well.. 

On 23 Jan 2002, Eric Smith wrote:

> Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org> wrote:
> > Granted, IDE disks alone arent any faster than the qbus,
> 
> False.  Most if not all IDE disks you can buy today have a sustained
> transfer rate faster than the Qbus can handle.  It's not a problem
> because the drive buffers the data and won't get unhappy if you read
> or write at a slower rate.
>