On Fri, 10 May 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You do not necessarily have to have SCSI, though, if you can see your way > > clear to buying SCSI equipment (it is more expensive, but the performance > > gains, IMO, are worth it), you're better off. > > > > [...] > > > SCSI is parallel tasking. You can read/write from/to every device on a > > SCSI chain, at the same time. > > Thanks for the scsi tutorial. I'd never really looked into it. So is > it easily possible to run both? That is, leave the HDD's as they are > (two HDD each on a Master[no slave] So /dev/hda /dev/hdc are HDD and > /dev/hdb is a regular atapi cdrom.
Yes...you can. > Then by adding a scsi card, could I have cd-read cd-write as two > elements on it? Or is the cd part now one piece of equimen Yes. The CD-Writer is also capable of reading, so you essentially have 2 CD-Read devices. But you do not have to remove your CD-ROM in order to install a CD-R/RW (either SCSI or IDE). > Can I set up a whole other anex by adding a scsi card? I was pretty > convinced by the unbroken data argument. So could data be read from HDD > (or from network) to scsi controlled stuff in an unbroken way? There would be pauses in read from the CD-ROM if the hard drive (/dev/hda) was read, since it's on the same chain as primary HD. > What about brands .. equipment known to work with linux? Pretty much any of them, in all honesty. They all pretty much conform, properly, to the IDE or SCSI (depending on which you install) standards and commands. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
