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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:52:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.223718.25158@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
- >
- >Nut if you ever plan on adding stuff in the forseeable future, then SCSI is
- >cheaper in the long run. You cn add CDROM, tape, more disk, etc, without
- >having to add more adapter cards, and chewing up your precious IRQ's and
- >stuff.
- >
- >I have 3 disks, CDROM, and tape on my Adaptec 1542b. Best investment I
- >ever made on my system.
-
- What is all this "pack my pc with crap" stuff all about?
-
- Who needs more than 2 hard drives in a PC?
- (If you have 3 hard drives then you made a boo boo when you bought the
- second drive)
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- An IDE controller can control 2 hard drives, 2 floppy drives, and you can
- get tape backup drives that hook up to your floppy disk controller.
- Serial, parallel, and game ports also on the IDE card.
- All that on 1 card.
-
- If you have a separate card for serial/parallel I/O, then you've "wasted"
- that slot anyways. You need 2 slots for SCSI hard drive, 1 for the hard
- controller, and 1 for the I/O (unless there are single board SCSI
- controllers that have floppy and serial/parallel ports).
-
- 2 hard/2 floppy/1 tape backup/2 serial/1 parallel/1 or 2 game ports on card 1
- A proprietary CD-rom controller takes up slot #2
- A video card takes up slot #3
- A Sound card takes up slot #4
- A fax/modem card takes up slot #5
- Optional specialty video board takes up slot #6
-
- And now, with local bus boards, you usually have 2 slots, one for video and
- one for the drive controller. I bet the local bus IDE controllers stand
- up pretty good against comparible SCSI controllers, and are probably 1/4 the
- cost.
-
- If SCSI is the be-all/end-all, why are there no SCSI floppy drives?
- Any SCSI video cards? SCSI modems? SCSI sound cards?
-
- So many SCSI device id's, but relatively few SCSI devices...
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