Re: tlug: Some hardware questions...

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:

> The IDE bus has a maximum clock frequency of 6 MHz or so and is
> 16 Bit wide. This translates into a maximum data transfer rate
> of 12 MBytes / s. Pretty close to SCSI II.

What about things like Ultra-ATA that claim a 33 MB/sec tranfer rate, the
same as UltraWide SCSI?  Do they really do this, or is this a theoretical
capability of the drive that cannot be met by the adapter card in the
computer?

TIA,

Jonathan

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