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Re: scsi-ide



>SCSI better than IDE

Actually, modern EIDE disks can take it up with all low-to-medium SCSI
drives. At about 50-70% of the price.

The 'special' commands on SCSI drives are a direct result of the way a
string of devices is managed on a SCSI interface. They have nothing to do
with being 'good'.

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, S. Schapiro wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't know about your specific problem, but I know about SCSI:
> 
> 1. SCSI disks are formatted completely different than IDE disks (they have
> their own version of LBA and don't use DOS-like C/H/S notation - tha adapter
> BIOS does that if necessary)
> 
> 2. SCSI disks support a completely different set of options (write-cache,
> LUNs, spin-up at boot, etc) which can be accessed via standard commands.
> 
> 3. I don't think there is any point to uses SCSI-commands on IDE disks (if
> someone knows, please tell me)
> 
> 4. SCSI is much better than IDE
> Schlomo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erez Doron <erez@savan.com>
> To: linux-il@linux.org.il <linux-il@linux.org.il>
> Date: Monday, December 01, 1997 12:41
> Subject: scsi-ide
> 
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >I've just compiled the new kernel 2.0.32
> >in addition to the patch for the pentium FO OF bug,
> >it has some more new things.
> >
> >one of them is an ide-scsi device
> >that means that i can acess an ide device, with
> >utilities that works only on scsi.
> >
> >I havan't got any experiance on scsi devices, so
> >i didn't managed to figure up how do i use th ide-scsi.
> >
> >I looked up the faqs but didn't find any thing
> >
> >i do not know how to tell it which ide i want to acess as scsi
> >and i have some more questions on that
> >
> >does anybody has the answers for this or can point me
> >to a place i could find the answers ?
> >
> >thanks
> >Erez.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

Peter Lorand Peres
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