> ignorant on the exact device details. You wouldn't happen to have the
> skinny of those things would ya? They still being made?
I wish, especially if they are the same price as regular IDE disks and the
Linux kernel supports them!
> Your comments really serve to enforce that IDE stinks and stresses that
> IDE should not be used where serious database performance is needed.
> Needless to say, I think we all already understood that. ;)
Even more so, it shows the difference between server-clas computer
components and consumer-class computer components. It's sometimes wearing
on the mind to get the finance guy at my company to understand why a
server with the same "specs" (using the term loosely) as a desktop machine
costs thousands more. After long discussions extolling the virtues of ECC
RAM, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, SCSI hard disks, RAID-1, and
cooling requirements, I can sometimes convince him that there is a real
reason for the price difference.
Jon
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>
> Copeland Computer Consulting
>
