<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Actually, my living hell back then was IDE</span><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">. SCSI made my life much more pleasant. That stupid IDE master/slave stuff, and using a "suitable" controller from a suitable master (which never worked when you tried to use a CD drive as master), and finding which HD brand had a controller that would work with other slaves, and discovering that Fujitsu HD's didn't co-operate with anything else, etc. Hell, never again!</span><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Oh, and IDE itself aside, one nice Fujitsu HD failed when its powerful motor magnets got too close to the steel wall of a tower case. Like, it was still at least 5 cm away! That one took many days to figure out.<br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Hartmut</span><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">On Thu 12 Jan 2023 at 21:09:34 -06:00, Alberto Abrao <<a href="mailto:alberto@abrao.net">alberto@abrao.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> Loving SCSI yet?<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">All I remember about SCSI is that it was not for mere mortals. It was <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">*enterprise grade*, thus ungodly expensive, back in my neck of the woods.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">IDE wasn't as complicated, but it wasn't as high end. Easy for me to say <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></body></html>