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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ESDI drives?
Message-ID: <2067@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 04:14:46 GMT
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In <12915@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> If "raw" performance is your quest, the advantage of such drives is minimal.
> Even though (for example) the Maxtor XT-4380 is less expensive than its SCSI
> counterpart (the XT-3380), any purported benefits of ESDI are negated by the
> need to translate to/from SCSI.

	This is like saying that any purported benefits from ST506 are negated by
the need to translate to/from SCSI, as is done with any SCSI controller (as
opposed to an SCSI host adapter). ESDI is a controller/drive interface spec,
as are ST506 or ST412. More than likely, the lack of expected performance
improvement is due to another factor. I would suspect the Adaptec
cotroller, judging from their rather poor performance in the SCSI/St506 area.

-larry

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