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From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:59:08 +0100
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Subject: Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's
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Hi,

Matthias Urlichs:
> On Wed, Mar 07 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > SCSI certainly lets us do both of these operations independently.  IDE
> > has the sync/flush command afaik, but I'm not sure whether the IDE
> > tagged command stuff has the equivalent of SCSI's ordered tag bits.
> > Andre?
> 
> IDE has no concept of ordered tags...
> 
But most disks these days support IDE-SCSI, and SCSI does have ordered
tags, so...

Has anybody done speed comparisons between "native" IDE and IDE-SCSI?

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