re recommendations for a local bus cached ide controller in article apr sol ctr columbia edu penev venezia rockefeller edu writes i would like to hear the net wisdom and net opinions on ide controllers i would liek to get a ide controller card for my vlb dx motherboard what are good options for this preferably under it must also work under os and be compatible with stacker and other disk compression s w i have a maxtor mb on an isa ide controller although my machine is dx vlb i has the save transfer rate of mb s regardless of the variations of the isa bus speed i tested it with speed between mhz and mhz not any difference the problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory my advice buy megs of ram save and enjoy performance computer mhz bus isa mhz drive maxtor a mb config sys autoexec bat ms dos no win smartdrv sys cache smartdrv exe core v k sec k sec k sec norton si v k sec k sec k sec i d still like to here from people with vlb ide i still want to know what vlb bus speed is used with ide drives i still want to know if some most ide drives can handle bus speeds mhz ps a friend with a and a new maxtor meg ide drive gets between k sec can t remember exactly i think the bus is running at mhz in this case
