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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!jabba.cybernetics.net!usenet From: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: SCASI or IDE disk? Date: 10 Aug 1994 20:43:32 GMT Organization: James' FreeBSD Machine Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <32be5k$bln@jabba.cybernetics.net> References: <RW2ystE.dysonj@delphi.com> Reply-To: james@hermes.cybernetics.net NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.cybernetics.net X-Newsreader: xvnews 2.2 Beta PL1, use only for testing please. I'll agree, and I doubt that you will find anyone that says otherwise. If you do not mind the initial extra cost overhead (drives cost a bit more, and the controller costs quite a bit more than an IDE controller), you would really be doing yourself a favor by going SCSI. Less "BIOS translation" worries, _much_ better response / CPU loading via bus-mastering DMA, etc. Plus, you can chain up to 7 devices off of your one SCSI controller. 7 gig drives (not gonna happen w/IDE-current. Anyone know about the new IDE specs?), SCSI CDROM drives, scanners, tape backups, etc. Just the other day I grabbed the external SCSI 4mm DAT tape backup unit we have lying aroud work and backed up my paltry 340 meg maxtor. Just hooked it up and ran tar. Had I not gone SCSI, I would have had to have opened up the case to plug in some sort of floppy drive controller hosted tape backup unit (which we don't have lying around). You get what you pay for. --- : James Robinson : james@hermes.cybernetics.net ::See the screaming hot black :FreeBSD|XFree86 :The best things in life are Free:: steaming iridescent : Frank Zappa : Music is the best ::naughahyde python screaming : HTTP Server : http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ :: steam roller!