[rescue] Sun Blade 100 Question - IDE

Steven Hill sjh at matrix.net
Fri May 10 11:38:11 CDT 2002


> > Kurt, IDE == Broken technology.  Adding another disk can very well
> > decrease performance on an IDE system, if both drives are on the same
> > bus (cable).
>
> Bah!  It's CRAP!  Obviously not Scottish...
>
> Here I was thinking that a couple cheap IDE dries in a P200 systems
> would make a decent fileserver.  Screw that.  Looks like I'll be keeping
> the Adaptec SCSI card and using more SCSI disks...

Will a failed disk on an IDE bus fail the whole bus?

ISTR that being a problem somewhere...

S.

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Steven Hill
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