On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:35, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 11:17, Russell Coker wrote: > > So we firstly need to find a real slow arch which also supports 4 new > > large IDE disks (remember that machines 3 years old tend not to have good > > support for >32G drives). > > That's primarily a BIOS problem, right? Does it matter for Linux?
Apparently. One machine that I recently gave away never really supported more than 25G of my hard drives. I never really investigated it properly, 25G was enough. > > Then this same arch needs to be slow enough at CPU that it needs a > > compiler cache, while being fast enough at doing disk IO and running the > > file system to be able to offer a performance gain. > > DMA-based IDE is pretty fast. Nowhere near a good as SCSI, but you can't > beat the price. That's an arguement for another list. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
