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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:17913 comp.os.linux.hardware:1846 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5222 comp.os.os2.misc:124674 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!panix!mreg.dialup.access.net!mreg From: mreg@panix.com (Mitchell Regenbogen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: IDE bad? was Re: List of recommended hardware components Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 18:01:36 EST Organization: PANIX Lines: 24 Message-ID: <mreg.137.00270D6C@panix.com> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3gjhe1$ced@pentagon.io.com> <3gm6rh$moc@newsflash.concordia.ca> <D3AvMr.JL0@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.84.192.22 X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] In article <D3AvMr.JL0@bonkers.taronga.com> peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) >Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 02:44:51 GMT >In article <3gm6rh$moc@newsflash.concordia.ca>, >Ian Ishmael <ishmael@cs.concordia.ca> wrote: >> What about Conner?I've been offered a Conner CFS540A at a pretty good >>price.Is it a EIDE drive?How much cache is on it? >If it's a 540 it probably isn't EIDE, but I would stay away from conner >simply because they invented IDE which says volumes for the quality of >their engineering staff (IDE is, if possible, WORSE than MFM or RLL from >the point of view of interoperability. I'm not saying run out and buy Conner, but the idea that IDE is "WORSE than MFM or RLL" is ludicrous. IDE was the basis of a virtual revolution in the hard drive industry, bringing larger, faster, easier to connect hard drives to millions of computer users. And it was and is certainly more "interoperable" than SCSI or ESDI. ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Mitch Regenbogen | | | mreg@panix.com | "I like to watch." | | Brooklyn, New York | --Chauncey Gardner |