[rescue] Total corporate madness (

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:

> > What boggles the mind about SATA is they took one of IDE's limitations
> > and made it worse.  I'm talking about drives/controller.  IDE has the
> > limit of two drives/controller.  With SATA, there's one
> > drive/controller.
>
> Actually it is an improvement.  This means you get the full SATA
> bandwidth to each drive; and the CDROM will no longer slow down the disk
> transfers.  Having 4 or more controllers on board in each system means
> you can instantly do 3-drive software RAID.

Yeah, but that's opposed to FC-AL's practical limit in the
dozens-of-drives-on-controller.

Peace...  Sridhar