----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Michael Wanka" <tm_wanka@earthling.net>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: 1.4.2 Observations

> On 27 Mar 2000, at 17:13, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
>
> > For single disk configurations, modern IDE disks are supposed to be as
> > good as scsi (I don't use IDE so don't quote me :-), and $/Mb is much
> > better for IDE than scsi so its hard to suggest anyone go scsi for a
> > single disk system.
[snip]
> I do not know about the IDE RAID controllers from HPT and
> promise, but these could have overcome this problems by using an
> on board processor.

Oh no ! IDE Raid controller from Promise is just the classic UDMA/66 card with a
 new Bios (a trick exist to transform it in "RAID").
In term of RAID, nothing is better than SCSI (and at least UWide).


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