On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 scoetzee@voltex.co.za wrote:
>
> > 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.
^^^
This is the key phrase..........ATA-Cascade to be announced for feedback.
I just have to compose the contents of the message.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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