> I said:
> > The disk mechanism itself is not at issue as those are in principle
> > identical.
> This is certainly true, but omits the important fact that *none* of the
> highest performance disk drives are available with an IDE interface.
> All the high end disk drives also have sophisticated head motion
> optimization algorithms which can substantially improve performance when
> the drive is given multiple commands at a time to work on.
I stand corrected. I had completely fogotten about this very important
fact. I wonder if one could simulate this aspect of SCSI function with a
sufficiently intelligent IDE controller (though at that point, there would
be significantly less cost advantage to IDE).
Ed Welbon; welbon@bga.com;