From: p_sture@elias.decus.ch
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:29 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: For all you hobbyists: IDE on SCSI !!

In article <3CFD2506.5000908@home.nl>, Dirk Munk <munk@home.nl> writes:
> Jonathan Boswell wrote:
>> Dirk Munk wrote:
>> 
>>>This is a 80 GB Western Digital WD 800JB IDE disk connected to the SCSI bus of
>>>my PWS. I used a Acard AEC-7720UW SCSI-IDE bridge to connect it. It works great,
>>>and in total this is a lot cheaper then a 80 GB SCSI disk !!
>> 
>> 
>> Very interesting.  What happens if you plug it into the PWS IDE controller
>> directly, without the Acard in between?
>> 
>>  - JB
> 
> I have a first generation PWS. Not even the CD-Rom is supported on IDE !
> 
> By the way, the performance of the disk is stunning. I did a anal /disk /read, 
> and got 580 IO's/sec sustained, with peaks up to 650 IO's /sec.
> 

Now I'm _very_ interested. I am just doing an anal /disk /read on my system
disk (PWS 600au, disk is COMPAQPC DDRS-39130D), and have a peak of 329 IOs/sec, 
265/sec average.

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Paul Sture
Switzerland