From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Subject: Re: SCSI buyers information Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 20:51:09 GMT
>>> On 30 Jul 1993 08:05:03 GMT, tpm@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Monks) said:
Tim> * If you're going to have more than one SCSI disk on the same controller,
Tim> an ISA card can't keep up.
Only if miraculously enough you manage to run *both* disks at their
rated maximum speed *at exactly the same time* for any length of time.
This is not very realistic. Actually, it is incredibly optimistic. The
idea that a disk that can deliver 2-4MB from the platter is going to
deliver it over the bus sustained is peculiar.
The other points are more or less reasonable; but they only really
matter if you are putting together a very high performance and loaded
machine, in which case an SGI workstation is probably a better idea.
Doing system integration is already difficult; trying to do *optimal*
system integration, without tests, just on hearsay, does not sound very
credible.