On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > > what a problem to plug 20 IDE disks on  5 4-channel controllers? :)
> > 
> > Cable lengths. And with 2 disks per channel you'll have poor performances.
> 5*4=20 so one per channel..

Ha yes, sorry. Hum, where do you get -channel controllers and at which price ?

> 
> i know that SCSI is better but the problem is in overshooted
> prices... 2-3 times than similar IDE..
> 
> or maybe only in Poland? :(

No, it's everywhere I think. But it's worth it for large and loaded
filesystem, or reliable machines.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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