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- From: gyl.midroni@rose.com (gyl midroni)
- Subject: local bus hard disk
- Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:18:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.231824.24755@rose.com>
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- Date Entered: 01-23-93 18:08
- C(>
- C(> >Didn't he say it was a VL card? That means that the CPU can't do
- C(> >anything anyway, since when the disk controller has the local bus the
- C(> >CPU can't talk to memory or anything anyway. This is why I don't see
- C(> >VL as a real win for anything except perhaps video; it will give you
- C(> >great burst mode numbers, but it impacts overall system performance to
- C(> >do that.
- C(>
- C(> Hmmm, it still has the internal I/D cache to run out of.
-
- Could you explain this to me a little slower please? I am about
- to plunk down big bucks on a new system. This particular vendor
- offers local bus hard disk controller. He says the bus is 100% VESA
- compatible.
- It seems to me that local bus disk access will be a speed booster
- for the reason of faster data communicatio with the CPU / memory. It
- is four times faster to get data off the disk at 33 MHz off the local
- bus connection to the CPU and memory than at 8 MHz via the ISA bus.
- As simple as that... no? Why would this impact system performance
- any more than getting data off the ISA bus.
- The only way I see the latter happening is if normally (i.e. using
- a ISA bus) data can go from disk controller to memory directly (DMA)
- while the CPU is doing something else, while with a local bus, Data
- transfer from hard disk controller to memory has to go via the CPU
- (i.e. no DMA) and then to memory. Is this what happens?
- Please help me out with this before I toss big bucks down the
- toilet.
- Thanks,
- Gyl
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