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Obscure piece of hardware! Why would anyone who needs up to 16 drives in a single system not use SCSI? IDE was never designed for more than two drives per bus c
by hestefisk 5y ago
Obscure piece of hardware! Why would anyone who needs up to 16 drives in a single system not use SCSI? IDE was never designed for more than two drives per bus connector (eg a 3.5” hard drive and a 5.25” zip / cd rom drive).
- hakfoo 5y agoI could imagine it being useful for an imaging setup-- an OEM could use it to generate hundreds of identical drives.
- hulitu 5y agoSCSI was expensive. Also i don't know if your favourite Intel CPU was able to take advantage of the SCSI bandwidth for 16 devices. With IDE, AFAIK you can talk to only 1 device at a time.