[rescue] Netapp

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I agree.  If I had better luck with SCSI periphs, I'd like to convert
everything but perhaps hard drives (and then only one per chanel, which is
already what I do) to SCSI.  However, I have yet to get an scsi periphs
working.  I'm probably scraping too close to the bottom of the barrel.

Actually, I heard some where (but for the life of me, can't remeber
where), that IDE was actually better with DVD drives.  I read that it had
something to do with variable packet sizes, and IDE handling them better
than SCSI did.  Don't know if there is any truth to that.  But, that might
be why we don't see SGIs with DVD drives.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 3, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > The other thing is that really, IDE is not a bus.  It is just a high speed
> > parallel(or is it serial?) interface.  The IDE protocol is so stupid that
> > they had to steal the most common SCSI commands and stick it on top of a
> > lame protocol to be able to easily support all the devices (Zip, CDROM,
> > CDRW, drives, etc.)
> 
>   It's parallel.  It's basically an extention of the original ISA bus
> with the controller logic (typical WD1003-style registers) on the
> drive.
> 
>   It's completely insane that it has proliferated to the point that it
> has.
> 
>     -Dave McGuire
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