On 19 Dec 97 03:48pm, Mike Bilow wrote to Mufutau Towobola:
 MB> Mufutau Towobola wrote in a message to George Fliger:
GF>Novell doesn't recommend IDE for their NOS.  You should really follow
GF>their guidelines.
 MT> Well, that is true that Novell never recommends IDE drives
 MT> but they NEVER said not to use it either... If that was the
 MT> case what happenes when we used to use the MFM/RLL drives
 MT> that is even worse that IDE/EIDE. But sure in general term
 MT> SCSI beats IDE....
 MB> Nothing bad will happen except that the server will be slower
 MB> with IDE.
Absolutely correct.  Thank you for extending my original thought.  I
personally don't give my clients the option to use IDE in their servers.
Every client in the past that I gave that option to, before changing
my personal policy, complained loudly when their server's performance
wasn't what they expected -- even though I explained this in detail!
Their response, "Why didn't you try harder to talk me out of it?"  You
just can't win sometimes. 
You should have seen those older clients REALLY scream when they
insisted on adding a SECOND IDE drive to the server!  You KNOW what kind
of a performance hit they took then.
George
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