Tom Ruddy wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> If you get out of the ISA world, PCI EIDE controllers can do bus-
 MB> mastering DMA.  This uses the full speed of the bus, 
 MB> bypassing the motherboard DMA controller hardware.  
 TR>   Are PCI EIDE readily used for duplexing drives? As in low
 TR> cost servers? And is there enough of a cost savings (over
 TR> all scsi equipment) to justify using all EIDE hardware?
 TR> (With no thought given to any performance hits.) 
I would not recommend EIDE servers for any number of reasons.  I would also 
consider "low-cost duplexing" to be an oxymoron.
 
-- Mike
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