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- From: dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: IDE faster than Mips SCSI disk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.003424.16178@cirrus.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 00:34:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.033942.21194@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Sender: news@cirrus.com
- Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.
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- In <1992Nov6.033942.21194@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
- (Othman Ahmad) writes:
-
- >IDE is just a simple interface definition, just like SCSI-2, but IDE,
- >is optimised for HARD DISKS, SCSI is not. SCSI is more general purpose.
-
- IDE simply means "integrated drive electronics", i.e., the disk
- controller is on the drive. It is NOT a disk interface standard. The
- interface with which IDE drives are normally used is the standard AT
- interface.
-
- While there is some merit in the IDE versus SCSI argument, the real
- argument is whether SCSI is or is not better a more dumb interface.
- However, IDE versus SCSI is a false dichotomy, because two orthogonal
- things are being compared: (a) Where the disk controller is, and
- (b) How smart the disk controller is.
- --
- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.com>
- also: dhesi@rahul.net
-