> They have disappeared as long as you don't need to attach more than two
> devices per controller....
this is fine, as you can always add more controllers, but theoretically (never
tried myself)
you can attach 32 SCSI 3 devices to a scsi3 bus.
that's quite an amount of drives, especially with an extrenal drive cage, and
raid, and, considering
most motherboards with onboard adapters have dual adapters, = 64 drives on two
controllers.
the other thing is, SCSI's main strength is not speed, but its ability to handle
huge loads,
try moving data to and from a machine via 2 or 3 network cards, compiling a
kernel,
using machine as mail server, firewall, etc, and having 50-60 users logged in at
the same time?
IDE does not cut the cheese quite yet.
Stef
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