On 20 Apr 2005 at 21:19, Scott Loveless wrote: > Hey, Pete. Most of the old Apple units had SCSI drives, which are > arguably among the most reliable of disk drives. Ironically, the only > disk drive I've owned that's ever failed me was a 4 gig Seagate SCSI > paired with an identical drive in a RAID 0 configuration. The > read/write heads wouldn't budge and the SCSI system wouldn't post past > that drive. After considerable mechanical agitation, a low level > format was required to recover funtionality.
The vast majority of the SCSI drives used in Apple desktops were also available in PATA IDE interfaces. I've had plenty of high performance SCSI server drives fail me and consumer IDEs that seemed to go on forever. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
