Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 07:08:00 EST


On 7 Jun 2000, Matthias Andree wrote:

> "J. S. Connell" <ankh@canuck.gen.nz> writes:
>
> > IDE and SCSI, in my mind, are addressing two different segments of the
> > market. Let's just shut up about it and use whichever is most suitable for
> > whatever we're trying to do, okay?
>
> I still believe in the superiority of SCSI, for practical reasons (most
> notably IRQs!), but I'll stick with a single IDE drive since I cannot
> afford 18 GB SCSI drives (gee, some Fujitsu MAE would be fine), but I
> can afford 20 GB IDE.
>
> Without SCSI, I would however be lost. Two tape drives, CD-ROM,
> CD-Writer. Huh, where would IDE put the hard disk?

You get a mobo with UDMA/66 on board. The tape & CD drives go on the
two UDMA/33 channels, then the HDD goes on the first UDMA/66 channel. That
way, you have room for another three IDE HDDs...

James.

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