Re: [TCLUG:12134] SCSI vs. IDE

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> With SCSI all the CPU has to do is dump data to the SCSI controller. 
> With IDE the CPU can't off-load the work, it has to control where the
> read/write head goes, if the drive is spun up...i.e. handle all the gory
> details.

Now these ata66 controllers, how do they make the landscape different?  It
seems like they have scsi-like drivers in windows.. dont know about linux
support.

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