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Scott Cooper <seehorse@earthlink.net> wrote in article
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> 
> > > I couldn't think of speaking for Ron.  There are "rare" 
> > > applications where the worst case performance must be guaranteed.
> > >  Very few WIntel workstation users see this.  I've added my *one*
> > > counter-example to this before - DV.  This requires some serious 
> > > SCSI UW performance.  It cannot be done no-how, no-way with IDE. 
> > 
> > A number of folks are reporting otherwise in rec.video.desktop.
> > 
> Yes, but you're not talking about professional quality results, you can't
> get 6MB/s or higher video out of an EIDE drive,

Yes you can.  An IBM Deskstar 5 using busmastering drivers will provide
this easily and is significantly faster than any fast SCSI-II HD except the
ST12450W.  Two Deskstar 5s + Promise FastTrak PCI UDMA EIDE RAID 0
controller is as fast as a single UW Cheetah and much bigger and less
expensive..


Check the messages in rec.video.desktop.  One of the longer threads is
titled "Does Anyone Still Use SCSI?".  There are others regarding the
FastTrak.

Regards,

Ron Reaugh