Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-24T07:57:18Z

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:02:46PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:31:26PM -0800, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> > But most
> > people don't connect big machines to IDE drive subsystems.
>
> 3ware controllers. They look like SCSI to the host, but use cheap IDE
> drives on the back end. Really nice cards. bkbits.net runs on one.

That's true (similar for some nice scsi2ide external raid boxens), but Alan's
original argument was about the Linux IDE driver on bix machines which is used
by neither..