OH YEA??? [was: Re: [rescue] Ultra?]

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:53:40AM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
> And a Yugo can go faster than a forklift, but which would you rather move a 
> refrigerator with?  Load and IDE Bus and watch the performance plummet, not 
> to mention that annoying wait as the OS grinds to a halt, waiting for the 
> Disk activity to finish.

Note that this is true on Sun, with their tremendously crappy IDE
implementation.  Not really true at all on x86 with Linux,
Free/Net/OpenBSD running at UltraDMA2 or higher.  

Of course, unlike SCSI, IDE chains should really only have 1 device
per channel - usually there are 4 channels available (then again, do
you really want more than 4 SCSI devices on a single SCSI chain?)

So, how much does a u5 with loads of RAM (to minimize disk IO
problems) go for these days?

./patrick