re recommendations for a local bus cache in article sol ctr columbia edu penev rockefeller edu penio penev writes on apr gmt divya sundaram sundaram egr msu edu wrote 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 penio penev x w internet penev venezia rockefeller edu disclaimer all oppinions are mine i also have a dx and a maxtor i have a local bus ide controller generic and i get kb s i tried swapping my local bus ide controller for an isa ide controller and my transfer rate went to kb s the specs for this drive show a maximum platter to controller transfer rate of mb s i dont know how to get there from here the local bus interface got me a little but certainly not as much as i had hoped i am also looking for a way to improve my disk performance but im not convinced that the controller is the bottleneck although im willing to entertain the possibility that it is i am already running a big main memory disk cache so im not really interested in this solution either chris brinton teradyne inc brinton icd teradyne com my opinions are my own but you re welcome to them
