Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?

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From: Ron Reaugh
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00

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Milton <m.hewitt@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
<66u25b$30i@mtinsc02.worldnet.att.net>...
> At precisely, 13 Dec 1997 08:42:34 GMT
> ID: <66thpq$e4d@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net>
> Newsgroup: news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
> 
> Ron Reaugh proclaimed:
> 
> >
> >
> >Arnold H Lee <meatball@wam.umd.edu> wrote in article
> ><34913d16.2409107@news.wam.umd.edu>...
> >> offhand, scsi prices have dropped dramatically.
> >> i have managed to buy a 2 gig seagate barracuda (7200 rpm, narrow) for
> >> only 160. 
> >
> >That's a virtually useless drive.  Only a single narrow drive like this
can
> >be used bandwidth wise on a SCSI channel. For $160 one can get a 4GB
EIDE
> >drive.
> 
> A 2 gig Barracuda is a useless drive?

Yep,  a narrow one is.  It uses a high percentage of the available SCSI bus
bandwidth on a workstation and therefore inhibits the multitasking use of
additional high performance devices on the same cable.

> Are you *fucking* retarded?

I guess the above describes your intellectual capabilities.

Regards,

Ron Reaugh

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From: "Ron Reaugh" <Ron-Reaugh@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/13
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