[rescue] Sun Blade 100 Question - IDE

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Fri May 10 15:15:16 CDT 2002


On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:25:18PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > 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...

Most systems have at least 2 IDE channels.  Put one drive on each channel.

./patrick



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