Re: SCSI for a slimmer World hack

2011-12-10 Thread Bruce Godfrey
Comments interspersed below - Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 9, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Bruce Godfrey wrote: Disk Speed Bench X reported the following this morning: ATA 100 drive mounted as /Volumes/MDD HD1 77 MB/sec SCSI drive mounted as / 76MB/sec No difference between IDE and SCSI speeds accord

Re: SCSI for a slimmer World hack

2011-12-10 Thread David W. Morris
On Dec 9, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Bruce Godfrey wrote: Back a few weeks. The computer definitely feels faster when booted from the SCSI disk. I used lots of SCSI hard drives in my Amiga computers and know well the advantages in speed and DMA between SCSI and IDE. It is a shame that the I

Re: SCSI for a slimmer World hack

2011-12-10 Thread Martin N
Lo, At 15:37 09/12/2011, you wrote: Back a few weeks during the IDE vs. SCSI and hacking for a slimmer World threads I was experimenting with SCSI in my G4 MDD DP. I had found using Disk Speed Bench X that one of my IDE drives was faster so I made that one the start up drive. I then got a u

Re: SCSI for a slimmer World hack

2011-12-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Bruce Godfrey wrote: > > Disk Speed Bench X reported the following this morning: > ATA 100 drive mounted as /Volumes/MDD HD1 77 MB/sec > SCSI drive mounted as / 76MB/sec No difference between IDE and SCSI speeds > according to this test. > This means your disk I/

SCSI for a slimmer World hack

2011-12-10 Thread Bruce Godfrey
Back a few weeks during the IDE vs. SCSI and hacking for a slimmer World threads I was experimenting with SCSI in my G4 MDD DP. I had found using Disk Speed Bench X that one of my IDE drives was faster so I made that one the start up drive. I then got a used U320 15k RPM SCSI drive set up as