On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/000606-000006.html
>
> Linux support for ATA/100 now, MS not yet.
> The drive continues!
So Linux has support for a useless technology before MS. I can't say this
impresses me very much.
(I call ATA/100 "useless" because ATA (AKA IDE) has a two device limit.
You're going to get maybe 10 to 15 MByte/sec sustained throughput out of even
the best hard drives today. So, even with the fastest drives around, you only
need 30 MByte/sec on the IDE bus. ATA/66 and ATA/100 are thus completely
pointless, marketing-driven technologies. For God's sake, let IDE die, and
move to something like SCSI. Or Firewire. *Something*.)
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