Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 05:28:09 EST


On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:21:47PM +0200, Gérard Roudier wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Stephen Torri wrote:
>
> > If we get ATA/100 then why buy SCSI?
>
> For better performance, superior reliability and flexibility ATA lacks by
> design.

For reasonable cable length that actually allows to place HBA card and
drives reasonably without using overlength cables that sacrifice the
theoretical reliability.

  Ralf

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