Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

# Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:55:26 +0100 (BST)

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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Helge Hafting wrote:

> >This is a not related to the simple announcement of new feature support.
> >I have run out of marshmellows, but the roast continues :-((

It's OK: I think we've drenched the flames with enough napalm to put the
fire out for the time being :-)

> Sorry if my post looked like flaming. There was the question
> "If we get ATA/100 then why buy SCSI?" and I provided an answer.
> Scsi still have some advantages, particularly when money isn't the
> constraint.
>
> Nothing wrong with ATA/100.

SCSI will still retain some appeal; if I were ordering a new server today,
I'd go for SCSI, certainly. I suspect between increasingly fast and
capable IDE and a fairly fast and more flexible USB, SCSI will begin to
get squeezed, though....

James.

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