>
> For those trying to make IDE drives run like the real thing, I think
> you'll like this. My street had a power failure last night so I didn't
> have anything to do except drink -er write.
BUY AN UPS!!!!
Spare me the poetry of Jack, Mic, Bud, and Johnny..........
A SCSI -n- IDE pissing contest is the last thing 'wee' need......
However, your humor is a royal flush.......... :-} as is mine....
>
> The Evil Prince of IDE
> Richard B. Johnson
> rjohnson@analogic.com
>
> With apologies to Sun Microsystems. Permission to duplicate
> is hereby given.
>
> Once upon a time there was a great King who ruled the land
> named for the luminous orb rising in the East. The King made
> great Chariots with fiery wheels that ran fast and true.
> These Chariots were much adored and were in great demand far
> and wide.
>
> It came to pass that such was the greatness of the King's
> Chariots that the King decreed; "From this time forth, and
> even forevermore, all persons great and small shall use the
> King's Chariots."
>
> But, alas, the cost of the King's Chariots was very great.
> He called upon himself all the land's great wizards,
> sorcerers, and money-changers and decreed that they should
> reduce the cost of the Chariots so that all persons from the
> lowest of hand-maidens to the greatest of Princes could use
> the King's Chariots. Messengers were sent, far and wide, to
> the four corners of the earth, inquiring to reduce the cost
> of the great King's Chariots.
>
> The wheels of the King's Chariots were made from spokes of
> strong timber, bound with bands of steel, and formed to
> perfect trueness by the wheelwrights of the Prince of SCSI.
> For this, they ran fast and true.
>
> In a dark corner of the land lived the evil Prince of IDE
> who made Chariot wheels of straw, bound in clay. For absent
> of substance, and wheelwrights skills, they would not run
> true.
>
> The evil Prince of IDE declared that the Chariot's wheels,
> made by the Prince of SCSI, were too great of cost. If the
> King's Chariots were increased in strength so they could use
> wheels of IDE, which did not run true, the cost would be
> much reduced.
>
> So the King decreed; "From this time forth, and even
> forevermore, all the King's Chariots shall use wheels from
> the Prince of IDE."
>
> But, alas, the Chariots using wheels of the Prince of IDE,
> ran far too slow. So slow were the wheels, because they did
> not run true, that the Chariots ran far into the darkness of
> night, and even unto the Sabbath which was against the rule.
>
> So the Prince of RAID declared that if the King's Chariots
> were tied with a golden strand, altogether unto a Chariot of
> RAID drawn by fiery dragons, they could once again complete
> their journey before darkness descended upon the land.
>
> So the King decreed; "From this time forth, and even
> forevermore, all the King's Chariots shall be tied with a
> golden strand unto the Chariot of RAID."
>
> But, alas, a voice was heard crying in the wilderness; "Why
> shall we tie our Chariots to the Chariot of RAID, drawn by
> fiery dragons, instead of changing to the wheels of SCSI
> which ran fast and true?"
>
> Hearing this, the evil Prince of IDE sent his dragons to
> slew the voice crying in the wilderness.
>
> -()-
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> Penguin : Linux version 2.1.128 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
> Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
>
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The IDE-FNG for Linux
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
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