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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI IDE hard drive
Keywords: SCSI, IDE
Message-ID: <2596@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 02:58:50 GMT
References: <1776@fornax.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1776@fornax.UUCP> liu@fornax.UUCP (Lixin Liu) writes:
| 
| Hi, could someone tell me what a SCSI IDE drive is?  I saw some ads of 
| local computer stores, they sell some brand of hard drive which is SCSI IDE.
| I don't understand what exactly this type of drive does. The saleman could
| not clearly explain this. 

  I would assume at first hand that your salesman is confused. Disks can
come in MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI, or IDE interface to the computer, but each
is diferent and requires a diferent controller.

  If he can't explain that, I suspect he can't understand it, and would
look elsewhere. He may mean a SCSI interface 3-1/2" disk, he may mean
SCSI on the drive between the drive and integrated controller, or he
may have picked some good buzzwords, like "standard metric
hexadecimal."

  When someone says something which sounds very unlike what the rest of
the world says, and can't explain it, I assume he's incompetent.

  Unless he's a salescritter, then I assume he's lying.
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