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Ok I can give 256K a shot next time. Actually won't the ISA controllers be even slower? I'm not sure what bus the PATA controllers on this PC are connected to
by yeokm1 9y ago
Ok I can give 256K a shot next time.
Actually won't the ISA controllers be even slower? I'm not sure what bus the PATA controllers on this PC are connected to but isn't it connected "natively" so to speak? It might even compete for bandwidth with the sound and network card.
- exikyut 9y agoVery, very good point. I'm not sure. Don't quote me, but I think the onboard PATA controller is connected via ISA as well.
- yeokm1 9y agoVery likely the onboard PATA controller is connected via ISA. I had to enable the ISA PATA support during the kernel configuration for Linux to recognise it. In this case, there probably won't be any benefit of having additional ISA controller cards.
- exikyut 9y agoThis is very very possible. What I wonder is whether the onboard chipset is slower than the ISA bus - and whether using an external card would eke out a tiny bit more performance. Apparently the ISA bus can stably run at up to 8MHz. It's not on-point but I found this thread that discussed SCSI controllers that was kind of interesting: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=36001 http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=36001 This project is really awesome btw.