12 Oct
2001
12 Oct
'01
1:58 a.m.
Rumor has it that Iggy Drougge may have mentioned these words:
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I cannot subscribe to that
point of view -- especially when I want my drive to do something a normal
drive isn't supposed to do.
And don't get me started on IDE 2.1 Orb Drives... Love the storage, *Hate*
the setup... (and XP doesn't support it yet...) SCSI "just plain works..."
And you won't until you need to boot from any drive that's not ID 0 on the
board (like booting from CD, etc...)
;-)
Glen Goodwin skrev:
If the cause is the motherboard, you can't (justly) accuse the SCSI card of
being the problem...
One machine, or many? If you have a pile of
cards, one machine, and none
of the cards work in that specific box, I'd suggest that there may be a
fault in the box, or another device in there which conflicts with your SCSI
cards.
Who cares what the cause is? The point is that it won't work. I see that BIOS setup utility on the cards as a
sympthom of the low level of
integration. The cards behave as an alien entity in the computer.
With my job, one realizes that *every* card is an alien entity -- I've had
*much* less heartburn getting add-on SCSI cards to work compared to
PCI-based add-on IDE cards (which, BTW, have their own BIOS too - and a
much more useless one at that...) and you apparently have never gotten a
Sound Blaster Live MP3/5.1 card working under Windows 2000... It took me
over 4 hours to research that one, whereas my 4-year-old --ahem -- no
longer supported -- PCI Diamond MultiMedia Fireport 40 Ultra SCSI card
installed without a hitch...
> and they
don't behave like the IDE hard drives.
Well, that's the point, right? ;>)
Not really. IMO a drive is a drive is a drive is a drive. > They
> have their own little BIOSes and things which I'm not used to from other
> systems.
Those little BIOSes (the ones with a setup
program) are a *big* advantage.
Just today I was cursing the fact that the BIOS on the ATA-66 controller I
was installing didn't have a setup program. It took me two hours to get
all six IDE drives working properly. With a decent SCSI card it would have
been 15 minutes, tops (barring any bad drives or cables).
Why? I've never had any need for a SCSI BIOS on my SCSI computers. > In fact,
non-PC systems tend to see IDE as a kind of bastard SCSI
> instead.
>They may be onto something there . . . For example, the onboard IDE controller in the Amiga
4000 and 1200 appear to
the system as scsi.device. And NetBSD/amiga only recently switched from "IDE
on SCSI" to the machine-independent WDC device. =)
And the only way I can get my IDE 16X Plextor CD-RW to work under Linux is
with SCSI emulation - without it I end up with digital frizbees...
Thankfully, SCSI works for me! ;-)
Just my $0.000002 (Canadian - I'm going to Canada today...)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger