Quoting Andre M. V. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Few years ago yes. But now, With Ultra ATA 100 around, > IDE drives can compete with low/medium sscsi drives.
They're not really directly comparable. Too different. With ATA, you get bottom price per megabyte, usually higher CPU loading, and consumption of IRQs. With SCSI, you get hot-fix mapping out of bad sectors automatically, scatter-gather at the hardware level, ability to do genuine low-level reformatting right in the host adapter BIOS, more-stable standards, and the ability to usefully have more than one drive per chain. And ATA 100 is a bit of a sham, because it's only barely possible to saturate ATA 66 with fast drives under contrived test conditions, and only one drive per chain can be active at a time. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
