From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 20 15:50:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5601637B423; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01922; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:50:45 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <200009202250.CAA01922@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: Frustration with SCSI system In-Reply-To: from "David Scheidt" at "Sep 20, 0 05:28:40 pm" To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:50:45 +0400 (MSD) Cc: babolo@links.ru, ee@uncanny.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt writes: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: > :I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact > :that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than > :IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may be. > :I am wery glad that now mostly no need in SCSI drives at all. > :Just use good IDE drives, may be second root and regular > :dumps to, for example DDS-4 strimer. It is cost effective. > This is totatlly contrary to my experience. Heck, I've got a fair > number of SCSI disks that predate 1991, happily spinning away. > SCSI just works, on everything I've ever used it. I've had a > occaisonal problems with things like termination. High quality > cables and enclosures solve this. I wouldn't let an IDE disk get within > thinking distance of machine whose reliability I cared about. Cabling... most of troubles caused by cables for me - it is reason I do not believe external devices. Most of IDE breaks was long ago - last about 3 or 4 years ago. SCSI drives breaks are quite regular - 1 or 2 in at least 5 last years. this is for about 50 SCSI drives near me and about 3 times more IDE drives. This is my expierency - you have another. -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message