> > > any HDA being manufactured, and the interface speed is just kind of
> > > silly.
> > 
> > unless you put 10 drives on one SCSI-3 bus. 
> 
> Sure.  And for half the price, I can put twice as much IDE storage on
> the same machine, even if I have to add some plugin IDE controllers.
> And for many applications, it will be faster.

unfortunately no. the ware some posts about performance problems with many
IDE disks even on separate controllers. it's because IDE chip saturates
completely PCI bus when transferring data so making CPU stalls when it
tries to send command to another IDE chip