Re: apt-get files problems
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:19:53 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
>>
>> A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI
>> disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically
>> identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are
>> different.
>>
>
> I ran this past my fiancé, Eric Mudama, who works in the hard drive
> business, and here's what he had to say. Hope it helps.
>
> [quote]
> Okay, here are the facts:
>
> 1. mechanically, current generation IDE and SCSI drives are *not*
> identical, not even close. The SCSI HDA, required to spin at 10k,
> 15k, or 22k RPM is a *much* different beast. They may have been
> identical back 4-5 years ago when Seagate was shipping 7200 RPM IDE
> and SCSI drives, but those drives dont exist anymore. The WD Raptor
> (10k SATA) has no equivalent SCSI product, so there is still no
> common-mechanics IDE/SCSI drive in production today (that I am aware
> of).
Thanks, Monique, I'm five years behind the times as usual :)
Interesting post, please thank your fiancé for his time
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....................paul
It's working as coded.
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