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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX and IDE drives
Keywords: IDE ESIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.153406.8260@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:34:06 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.021335.5221@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Private System -- Orlando, FL
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In article <1990Dec10.021335.5221@portia.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@elaine41.stanford.edu (Chin Fang) writes:
>In an earlier posting of mine, I repeatedly misspelled Connor as
>Cornor.

It's "Conner," not "Connor."  Not to be confused with "Conor," a
frequent poster to this group whose name is usually mangled in
followups...   :)

>I think even Interactive 386/ix can use IDE as well.

I have used the 200 MB Conner IDE drive with ISC 2.0.2 without any
problems.

>One additional info I forgot to mention:  Connor drives offer 15 Mhz 
>data transfer rate.  In DOS environment, I used the latest Coretest
>from Core International to test that claim.

The last I remember reading about IDE stated that it used a 12 MHz
transfer rate.  Is Conner now using something faster?  When I ran
Coretest on the Conner drive, it showed a transfer rate of about 1100
KB/sec, which sounds low for a 15 MHz drive considering I usually get
around 500 KB/sec on a 5 MHz drive.  Not that it necessarily means
anything, but I noticed a 24 MHz crystal on the IDE host adapter.
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)