Re: [git patches] IDE update

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 09:33:35 EST


On Maw, 2005-07-05 at 20:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> IDE still has much lower overhead per command than your average SCSI
> hardware. SATA with FIS even improves on this, definitely a good thing!

But SCSI overlaps them while in PATA they are dead time. Thats why PATA
is so demanding of large I/O block sizes

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