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- From: behrenss@hphalle6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: Vulcan Gold or Turbo IDE
- References: <1992Nov18.204136.2640@ntmtv>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:46:43 GMT
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- Joseph Blas (blasjw@ntmtv.UUCP) wrote:
-
- : I need some serious advice. I have a Vulcan 40 meg. hard drive which
- : is pretty slow. From what I understand the Vulcan Gold upgrade is a
- : new controller that increases the speed. I think heard some bad
- : things about the Vulcan Gold though. That guy in Germany put an add in GS+
- : for his Turbo IDE card. I've heard it's supposed to be pretty good
- : but it's expensive.
-
- Hmm. The Turbo IDE is considerably faster (about twice the speed of a Vulcan
- Gold), since it uses DMA and highly optimized routines. Thus the relatively
- high price. The Turbo IDE is capable of working with 8MB of memory, even
- with DMA on, and even if there is a TWGS in the system :) In addition, you
- could hook up an IDE tape drive to it (instead of a second HD).
-
- If you want speed, the Turbo IDE is well worth it's money. It outperforms my
- RF SCSI Rev.D speed-wise, yet only slightly :)
-
- Oh, one thing I forgot: Some very old Vulcans use mechanims that are _not_
- fully IDE compatible. The Turbo IDE won't work with these mechanisms. There
- is a program to determine wether your Vulcan'll work with the Turbo IDE,
- if you want, I can put it on c.b.a2.
-
- And yes, I _am_ biased. So what? ;-)
-
- Soenke
-
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