VanLUG Email Archive
> But these are users who will think nothing of running Photoshop in
> the foreground with an FTP running in the background and maybe Netscape
> lurking, while several telnet windows are open and doing things.
Aren't these normal users then? Your email address does have a cs in
it.
> So the question comes up: what interface should the main disk(s) use?
> Is SCSI still sufficiently better than EIDE to justify the extra price
> of the drives? Do UDMA drives actually get decent transfer rates,
> comparable to SCSI, these days? Is it actually better to have the disk
> on an EIDE controller to balance load between it and the SCSI controller?
The comp.periphs.scsi FAQ is at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.periphs.scsi.html
and addresses some issues like SCSI vs ATA, and whether or not it's
worth it for the home user to have SCSI. I don't know about UDMA.
> Is there any problem booting Windows or Linux on a SCSI-only system with
> no EIDE disk? How about mixed EIDE and SCSI - can you boot from either?
I booth both Linux and Win95 fine on a SCSI-only system. The CMOS on
my motherboard has a setting which lets me choose whether to boot from
(E)IDE or SCSI. I would expect this feature to be common on
motherboards, but I haven't looked.
Kevin
-- Kevin Chu
http://members.tripod.com/~super_kevin/