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joshua d boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 10 15:14:46 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:07:05PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:04:28PM -0600, james at foonly.com wrote:
> > 
> > The most common "issues" are with hot swap and drive failure.  IDE was not
> > designed to handle these particularly well and you need to stick to one
> > drive per controller to handle drive death gracefully.
> 
> if i'm gonna attach an array of anything to a SCSI bus it sure as hell ain't
> gonna be made up of IDE disks.
> 
> the whole point here is that i need something that is attached to the host with
> an IDE bus, unless someone knows how to hack a SCSI controller into a TiVo. :)

An ISA slot has been hacked in, and an ethernet card added.  The problem
is that SCSI over ISA isn't fast enough for what you want.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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