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From: jhl@frith.uucp (John Lawitzke)
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Subject: Re: UNIX and IDE interface?
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Date: 30 May 90 20:12:51 GMT
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From article <2284@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, by davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr):
> 
>   Has anyone ever run Xenix or UNIX on a system with a IDE disk? I can't
> seem to get an answer from anyone who's done it, and "it should work"
> from a vendor dosn't fill me with confidence.
> 

It runs just fine. By definition an IDE disk presents a standard ST506
interface to the system. To Xenix/UNIX this just looks like a standard
MFM or RLL disk. From throughput comparisons I've run on Quantum SCSI
and IDE drives, the IDE drives have performance just slightly under the
SCSI performance.

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