[rescue] Netapp

[Brian Hechinger]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:39:38PM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
> They use one controller, with multiple IDE channels, each drive is on its
> own separate channel from any other drive; thus, there is no bus contention
> (if you load up a bunch of high end SCSI drives on just one SCSI chain,
> your bandwidth can get used up by talking to each separate drive) . 

but isn't the big deal here that only one IDE device can talk at a time whereas
all SCSI devices can talk at any time?  maybe that has changed about IDE, but
i remember one of the old arguments against IDE (granted this was a while ago)
was the bus hogging characteristic.

cheers,

-brian