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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IDE bad? was Re: List of recommended hardware components
Date: 6 Feb 1995 18:45:45 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3h5qop$9t2@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3gjhe1$ced@pentagon.io.com> <3gm6rh$moc@newsflash.concordia.ca> <D3AvMr.JL0@bonkers.taronga.com> <mreg.137.00270D6C@panix.com>
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mreg@panix.com (Mitchell Regenbogen) wrote:
] I'm not saying run out and buy Conner, but the idea that IDE is "WORSE than
] MFM or RLL" is ludicrous. IDE was the basis of a virtual revolution in the
] hard drive industry, bringing larger, faster, easier to connect hard drives to
] millions of computer users. And it was and is certainly more "interoperable"
] than SCSI or ESDI.
I would be interested in knowing about QBUS, VME, SBUS, and MBUS
IDE interfaces.
Or am I stuck with nothing but high capacity, high speed SCSI and
ESDI interfaces that can only take 7 drives without multiplexing
(I know that they support *lots of devices *with* multiplexing,
but I am morally opposed to this).
Thanks in advance.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.