This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Wed Apr 24 18:34:35 2024 Received: from nic.funet.fi (nic.funet.fi [128.214.248.6]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA03711 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 19:39:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu ([128.6.190.2]) by nic.funet.fi with ESMTP id <74929-31562>; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 02:49:06 +0300 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <116412-27463>; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 19:36:56 -0400 Message-Id: <9609281249.AA16342@athos.mas.vcu.edu> Subject: Re: Please Advise: SCSI vs. IDE (fwd) To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Kernel Mailing List) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:49:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marko Siladin" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk > > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > Stay away from SCSI at all. Its complicated, slow and fails often. IDE drives > > are easier to troubleshoot and the usually work. IDE drives are faster. > > > > KKlein99@aol.com wrote: > > : 486 SX 33 Mhz > > : 16 Meg RAM > > : SVGA Trident video card and Samsung Monitor > > : 170 Meg HD primary > > : 250 Meg HD secondary > > : soundcard > > : Adaptec 1542CP (PNP disabled with switches on card) > > : Toshiba 3401 2X CD Drive external > > : > > : I want to add a 2 Gig HD to this config. Should I put it on the SCSI card or > > : should I replace one of the IDE HD's??? What would be faster??? I want to > > : put usenet newsgroups on it and allow user's to read/search... > > SCSI, on the other hand, has been absolutely and utterly reliable. My > 486/100 EISA box with Adaptec 2742 SCSI bussmaster adapter just blows > the doors off a Pentium 90 box when subjected to my standard I/O test > suite. It's quite subjective, but you attempt to simultaneously: > This is a tough issue. It really it really depends on several things. 1) If your controller is a busmastering SCSI controller - I believe that the 1542 is not (but I might be wrong) 2) How many users will be accessing your SCSI devices simultaniously. 3) Will you add aditional SCSI devices to your system in the future? if the answer is 1)- I got busmastering 2)- many users are accesing the SCSI devices 3)- Yes I'll add more SCSI devices Then the solution is GET a SCSI disk (a reliable one). otherwise your most likely better of with EIDE - with a small aside here - if you plan to build a serious multiuser/multitasking system in the future or (like me) yust like to play with cool stuff -> get SCSI. One nice thing is that all devices on a SCSI system take just one interrupt - so you won't have problems adding up to 7 devices. Good luck and be well -- ...Marko ------------------------///////////-\\\\\\\\\\\-------------------------- (O) ^ ^ (O) Marko Siladin | | | VCU, Dept. of Math. Science msiladin@athos.mas.vcu.edu \ / Division of Computer Science http://athos.mas.vcu.edu:8080/grad/marko/home.html ------------------------\\\\\\\\\\\-///////////--------------------------