Re: Please Advise: SCSI vs. IDE (fwd)

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Sun, 29 Sep 1996 12:54:44 +0200 (MET DST)


> 1) If your controller is a busmastering SCSI controller - I believe that
> the 1542 is not (but I might be wrong)

it is (or you are;)

> 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).

(2) should be true for everyone since it's not many "users" but
many "processes" and when I look on "modern" desktops of many "single users"
that's a pretty good emulation of a "many user" system ;-)

Harald

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