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Article #10705Re: ESDI drives?
From: Thad P Floryan
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1988 23:55
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1988 23:55
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Re: Tony Sumrall's question "Has anyone hooked up an ESDI drive to the Amiga?" the answer is yes. Several callers to BBS-JC (415/961-7250) have done so using an Adaptec translator (ESDI<=>SCSI). Feel welcome to call BBS-JC and browse the archives for more specifics (i.e. Adaptec part number, disk drives that have been known to function, etc.) If "raw" performance is your quest, the advantage of such drives is minimal. Even though (for example) the Maxtor XT-4380 is less expensive than its SCSI counterpart (the XT-3380), any purported benefits of ESDI are negated by the need to translate to/from SCSI. Even a "straight" ESDI connection (as reported in various UNIX REVIEW test reports over the past 6 months) appears to be slower than what one can expect using SCSI on the Amiga under 1.3 with the FFS. PLEASE NOTE: those reported speed differences are most likely due to the OS and file system and not because of intrinsic speed differences of the actual hardware interface. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: ESDI drives? Message-ID: <12915@cup.portal.com> Date: 24 Dec 88 23:55:06 GMT References: <721@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 18