26 Apr
2007
26 Apr
'07
12:28 p.m.
Ensor wrote:
Hmm, I think that's what's in my Amiga A590 enclosure. It's certainly not
SCSI, but I'm sure the connector's not proper IDE either.
I have a few
XT IDE and of the 4 only one drive (20mb) does 8bit
the rest depend on the ISA bus card to do translation (8-16).
WD did a (shortlived ISTR) line of 8-bit IDE drives, I had one - along
with the associated ISA bus card. I forget the model number, but they
were differentiated from the otherwise identical "16-bit" versions by
having an "XT" suffix on the model number. And they were bl**dy unreliable too! :-(
That worries me about the Amiga one. It does have a SCSI connector within the
A590 I think, but I'm not sure how picky it is about what drives it'll work with.
I must admit I've not kept up with developments in
IDE, I switched to
SCSI in 1991 and never bought another IDE drive until last year....
I did that too... I've sort of given up on SCSI now for drives though, simply
because the prices for tested/used IDE drives [1] are so much cheaper than
SCSI, and for storage of things like scans and images I don't *need* the
performance. It'd be different if it were for systems that were on the 'net or
accessed by several people, of course, but for "home personal fileserver" IDE
seems to be working out (even if it does make me feel all unclean ;)
[1] I don't buy new stuff, not for PCs - not when the price drops so much for
"previous generation". Unfortunately SCSI drives of 36GB and up don't seem
to
be readily available.
cheers
Jules