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- From: x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (A. Stegmeier)
- Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.022450.4732@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Organization: University of Heidelberg (Germany)
- References: <1993Jan13.015202.2699@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 02:24:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan13.015202.2699@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- [...]
- >>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)
-
- This is absolute nonsense, it's quite useful to have this option.
- Furthermore you can add removable disks: real hdd's, Syquest's, Bernoulli's
- an MO-disks.
-
- >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.
- >
- [...] much useful slot-counting deleted
-
- Ever heard of IRQ's ? Usually you run out of IRQ's before you run out of
- slots. That's what the previous posting mentioned and you seem to have missed.
- A floppy streamer is also no serious option.(and needs another IRQ)
- >
- >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...
- >
- There are SCSI-floppies, terminal-adapters, network-cards, scanners,
- parallel-ports, printers, ISDN-adapters....
-
- So many words, but relatively few content....
- >
- --
- Achim Stegmeier EARN: R.I.P
- Unirechenzentrum Heidelberg E-Mail: x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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