On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 dsavage(a)peaknet.net wrote:
AFAIK, SCSI is still the only hard drive interface that supports
low level formatting.
You can often get utils from the drive manufacturers to do same thing
with IDE drives. There's not a standardised interface for it though,
AIUI.
There are only two types of EIDE server drive users: those who
have already had massive data loss, and those waiting for it to
happen. Anyone betting their business on big cheap EIDE drives
rather than SCSI better have (and religiously use) first class tape
backup systems. They're gonna need 'em because the failure rates
for EIDE drives used in 24/7 servers are between two to three
orders of magnitude higher than SCSI. </rant>
This is waffle. For many drives, the only difference between IDE and
SCSI is the electronics.
And any way, for the price of your SCSI system, I can have an IDE
system with more storage, mirrored to a second system, with the tape
drive paid for out of the cost difference and with change to spare.
We return you now to your regularly scheduled programming...
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
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