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Dlazar@dotcomny.com wrote in article <6mb4fm$9k0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> In article <01bd9973$df77c8a0$640000c0@m5>,
>   "Scott Bolander" <meee@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > I had a Mitsumi 32x IDE CD-ROM in my system and I replaced it with a
> > Toshiba 32x SCSI connected to an Adaptec PCI SCSI controller.  Before I
> > removed the IDE drive I "benchmarked" it by doing some copys from a CD
I
> > have.  Here are the results:
> >
> > NORTON 3.0 INSTALL DIRECTORY (22 MEGS) (Large CAB files)
> > Mitsumi			54 Sec
> > Toshiba SCSI		12 Sec
> >
> > DIRECT X 5 INSTALL DIRECTORY (Lots of small files)
> > Mitsumi			38 Sec
> > Toshiba			14 Sec
> >
> > Is this kind of performance boost normal?  On their respective webpages
> > their stats are identical (85 ms access time, 256k Buffer) but why the
> > difference?  Bare in mind that I am *not* complaining; I am very
pleased
> > and will NEVER go back.  Next I will be rid of this IDE HD.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Scott Bolander
> > Astro Computers
> > 910 867-2667
> > meee@earthlink.net
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~meee/
> >
> > "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are
> > neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make
things
> > worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve
rather to
> > encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked
> > with greater confidence than an armed man."
> > -- Thomas Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On
Crimes
> > and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
> >
> >
> 
> What happpens is whit IDE only one drive can opprate at a time one must
> finish what it is doing before the other can start so therefor the hard
drive
> and the cd must wate for eachother before continuing but the SCSI does
not
> since it has a disconnect reconect mode. Even if IDE drives are on
diffrent
> channels they still comform to the same rules. 


No,  using busmastering EIDE drivers DMA mode EIDE devices on separate
cables run simultaneously(multitask just fine).