"Glenn C. Lasher, Jr." wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
>
> > Okay, I've got some math to do, but the drive won't be pulling 66 MBps
> > all the time right?
>
> Correct. Mechanical issues come into play.
So, continuing this discussion. Since I'm getting the PCI ide
controller card, I don't have enough irqs to move just the new hard
drive to the new card. I'll need to move something else as well. That
would be another hard drive (33MBps), a cdrom or a cdrw. Since the low
end usage device would be the cdrw, any idea what kind of throughput it
commands?
Starting to wonder if this is all worth it. Maybe I should have gotten
another ata33 drive rather than the 66? Is the possibility of pci
saturation going to eliminate the gain of the new drive? I've got a lot
of stuff on my pci bus, as noted before. Any idea what I might gain by
going to an agp card and ridding this machine of my current video card
setup (pci matrox millennium + 3d pci card)?
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