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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Legacy hardware support in openSUSE 10.3
From:       Roger Oberholtzer <roger () opq ! se>
Date:       2009-06-17 8:16:08
Message-ID: 1245226568.12449.80.camel () acme ! pacific
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On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:09 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:35 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > 
> >> The biggest obstacle to good performance on a P2B is the disk I/O.
> >> The onboard piix controller is Ultra DMA 2 aka UDMA33, capable of
> >> about 1/3 the throughput of the last made PATA disks. These
> >> controllers were the last PATA not to require 80 wire cables for
> >> reliable performance at max speed. I used to use SCSI instead of PATA
> >> on i440BX to get around that bottleneck, but took the last of my
> >> 100FSB systems out of service several months ago.
> > 
> > They use the SCSI interface on the motherboard. We have always tried
> > to get our users to invest in good disks.
> > 
> 
> Roger, I have about a hundred 1/2" SCSI/SCA drives in varying sizes,
> ranging from 9 to 72Gb, most either 18Gb or 36Gb - would your customer
> be interested in purchasing some of those?  (SCA drives are getting
> increasingly expensive and rare).

I can pass this on to those of our customers still using SCSI. Most have
moved to SATA. If there are any bites, I will pass then your way.


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Roger Oberholtzer

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