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From: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IDE hard drive controllers
Message-ID: <548@zds-ux.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 16:16:24 GMT
References: <276@platypus.uofs.edu>
Reply-To: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
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In article <276@platypus.uofs.edu> spt2@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu writes:
>I have an IDE drive and I heard different opinions on the quality
>and performance of the drive.  I would like some information like
>specs. or opinions on the controllers.  I would especially appriciate
>a comparison between IDE and RLL.

IDE and RLL are not mutually exclusive.  IDE stands for Internal
Drive Electronics, which means that an ISA bus interface is just
bus buffers and a connector.  RLL has to do with the physical format
used on the disk, and the IDE interface is independant of physical
format.

Gerry Gleason