[Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo

[Chris Lindley]

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 04:57, Mark Anderson wrote:
> Shak wrote:
> > Hiyas,
> > 
> > Im having IDE problems at the moment, I have endless bugs with my hard disks and CD-RW such as when Im using them heavily (such as copying data from one disk to the other) my system is liable to go very slowly. Do you reckon its worth trying some rounded cables?
> 
> Do you get any messages about DMA during boot?
> 
> hdparm -d /dev/hda should tell you if a device is using DMA mode. If the 
> cables are not up to the job, they'll cause errors and DMA will be disabled.


Hmmm, all these problems about DMA and IDE devices, is not encouraging
me to make the move from SCSI!!

OK, SCSI termination is a black art, but since my system works pretty
well now, just dropping in a 3rd drive (/dev/sdc) would be easy!!!

:-)

Cheers
Chris

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