Re: IDE/ATAPI

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2000 - 06:26:05 EST


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Current ATAPI controllers and disks cannot do tagged queueing nor can they
> do scatter gather DMA. That materially impacts performance under some
> heavy server load patterns. For most uses it doesnt matter, and IDE is
> a lot cheaper.

Yes, but Linux will soon have "tagged queueing".....

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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