Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:40:28 +0100 (BST)


> If you try doing that with ATA you would need 7 or 8 free slots
> _just_for_drive_controllers_. Not to mention interrupts and interrupt
> loading (you would need a much faster CPU to deal with the IDE case).

Actually you need one slot per 16 drives with an 8 port 3ware controller

Alan

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