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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI -- FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 08 Nov 1994 06:19:34 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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In-reply-to: dh950@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 5 Nov 1994 04:45:57 GMT
>>>>> "Kair-Chuan" == Kair-Chuan Lim <dh950@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> writes:
In article <39f2m5$8aj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dh950@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kair-Chuan Lim) writes:
Kair-Chuan> Does anyone know the advantages of installing FreeBSD
Kair-Chuan> on the IDE or SCSI drive. I am in the process of
Kair-Chuan> buying a machine adn would like to know the
Kair-Chuan> differences between the two drives.
Ooooh goody another IDE vs SCSI flame war..... ;-)
IMHO you should go SCSI mainly for the reason that you can then easily
add more devices to the chain without worrying about extra interface
cards. Also SCSI will support larger disk drives, tape drives and
cd-roms all on the one card. Yeah sure, there is EIDE which addresses
some of the limitations of IDE (like the size limitation and lack of
CD-ROM) but it's still a kludge coz you only can cope with 2 devices
whereas SCSI will cope with up to 7 devices.
--
Brett Lymn