[thechat] Home Office Equipment

Andrew Forsberg andrew at thepander.co.nz
Mon Nov 5 22:38:33 CST 2001


>Okay, I admit to passing along something I haven't tested. But my hardware
>specialist buddy (who's a tightwad extraordinaire) uses IDE RAID because he
>say's it's faster and cheaper than SCSI. I'll check with him on how he's
>doing it.
>
>spinhead

Naaa. Nothing to admit -- we all do it all the time, don't we (looks 
left, looks right, wonders who's lurking on the chat, (: ). It took 
me a long time to come around to IDE for workstation use, but I'm 
more-or-less there now. Even though IDE drive speed keeps playing 
catch-up with SCSI, it's cheaper for a reason.

E.g.: there are a few groups of sectors on the IDE drive on my G4: I 
know they're bad, the computer know's they're bad, try telling the 
drive that! With my previous apple workstation (a 9600-200), the SCSI 
drive would mark them bad and that would be that, they were 
essentially gone. If I felt like some punishment, I could even 
*un-mark* the sectors as bad.

If anyone can suggest a way to get around this problem I'm all ears! 
But, AFAIK, unless the drive's automagic bad-sector detection stuff 
kicks in, there's nothing I can do to avoid the dreaded 5 minute 
BRRRR-BRRRRR-BRRRR when I use the partition with the bad sectors.

On a brighter note, I'm dead keen to add one of these to the list of 
new year gimme-gimme-gimmes:

http://www.hermanmillerred.com/catalog/product_detail.jhtml?navAction=jump&id=EA335

Can't beat an Eames' chair -- unless you like the sci-fi Aeron stuff, I guess.


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