Re: Cheetah vs. UDMA: Bonnie says UDMA is faster! why?

Ricky Beam (root@defiant.interpath.net)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 03:48:11 -0500 (EST)

Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Mark Lehrer:
>Thanks to all who responded. The result: I accepted the default in
>the synchronous transfer frequency and should have bumped it up.

You should also up the number of tagged commands. That drive can take 16
or more commands. And as I recall, the SCSI spec. states 8 is the minimum
it the drive claims to support tagged command queuing.

And, the cheetah is not the fastest drive on the market... go look at some
of the drives coming out of IBM.

--Ricky

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