On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:07, Malcolm Baldridge wrote: > 2) You need to ensure 80-wire cabling is used and that you're getting > UDMA/100+ timings out of the controller. Got burned by that one once. My home system was the only thing I had that was IDE. > But still... even my old 10K and 15K RPM U-160/U320 drives blow the pants > off my newest IDE drives with almost zero CPU utilisation. But that is for > a server application (on P4 SuperMicro systems with onboard U160/U320 dual > channel SCSI hardware), and it's quite possible that if I tried doing audio > on that hardware, I'd be in xruns city. > I've been running SCSI on PC's (where I work) for as long as I can remember (at least since 2920, before that we were strictly UNIX workstations - HP, SGI, Sun). I actually tried the 2940 on my system since I had one laying around and it ate the PCI bus. At work I've gone away from SCSI for three reasons - first is cost, second is that the speed difference isn't very much anymore, third is that you can't get SCSI in Djibouti (or Honolulu for that matter). I work with ship and airborne data collection/processing systems. We've had problems getting SCSI drives anywhere but the states (or Singapore, although I had problems there once - I couldn't find anything old ;-) Now we're starting to switch to SATA for the same reason. Jan
