re ide vs scsi in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes in article qk kvinnndk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes point of view why does scsi have an advantage when it comes to multi tasking data is data and it could be anywhere on the drive can scsi find it faster can it get it off the drive and into the computer faster does it have a better cache system i thought scsi was good at managing a data bus when multiple devices are attached if we are only talking about a single drive explain why scsi is inherently faster at managing data from a hard drive the adaptec series use bus mastering this means that the cpu doesn t sit waiting for data bytes it can go off and do other computing if you have an advanced multi tasking os that is dos just sits and waits anyway ide integrated device electronics currently the most common standard and is mainly used for medium sized drives can have more than one hard drive asynchronous transfer mb s max why don t you start with the spec sheet of the isa bus first you can quote scsi specs till you re blue in the face but if they exceed the isa bus capability then what s the point who says ide is limited to megs sec what about vlb ide does anyone know how they perform why don t you start with the spec sheet of the isa bus first ide was designed to plug into isa virtually unaided in essence ide is isa on a ribbon cable therefore it s specs are the same as isa mhz clock bit width mb sec this is why i ve concluded that ide on vl bus is a waste of a fast slot the card s job would to slow the vl bus transactions to isa speed heck that s what isa slots do i ll just use one of those instead richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
