[rescue] tape drive with no SCSI

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Nov 8 08:25:50 CST 2001


On November 8, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
> > I'm told that SCSI is better for using a large number of drives. 
> 
> Not really because now there are IDE based Raid arrays available but the
> performance is not as good.

  Yes but IDE RAID arrays typically don't stick multiple drives on a
single IDE bus.  I believe Joshua was referring to IDE's habit of
sucking rocks when two drives are placed on a bus.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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