Re: large ide raid system

[Dan Hollis]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Jan Edler wrote:
> > My tests indicate UDMA performs favorably with ultrascsi, at about 1/6 the
> > cost. Cost is often a big factor.
> I wasn't advising against IDE, only against the use of slaves.

Here we agree :D  1 device per channel. (When will any vendors implement
IDE disconnect? the spec has existed for ages.)

> With UDMA-33 or -66, masters work quite well,
> if you can deal with the other constraints that I mentioned
> (cable length, PCI slots, etc).

Get an Abit BP6 and you have 4 onboard udma channels, and 6 PCI slots. :D

Cable length is not so much a pain as the number of cables. Of course with
scsi you want multiple channels anyway for performance, so the situation
is very similar to ide. A cable mess.

-Dan