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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [git patches] IDE update
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:21:47 +0100
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On Maw, 2005-07-05 at 20:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> IDE still has much lower overhead per command than your average SCSI
> hardware. SATA with FIS even improves on this, definitely a good thing!

But SCSI overlaps them while in PATA they are dead time. Thats why PATA
is so demanding of large I/O block sizes