[rescue] Sun Blade 100 Question - IDE

Rick Hamell hamellr at heorot.1nova.com
Fri May 10 12:48:32 CDT 2002


> > 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...

	Sometimes, depends on the chipset and how it handles such. Most
newer PC stuff just drops the hard drive and keeps on going. I don't know
if Sun works the same, I use SCSI there. :)

	Rick



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