Re: VESA local bus architecture help

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From: Dwight W. Gordon
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 13:31

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ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>>BTW, is IDE like scsi where you can chain several devices
>>together, or is it something else? 

>No its hard drives only. Two drives per IDE "paddle card". The
>controller actually lives on the physical hard drive, which ac-
>tually use some advanced form of RLL encoding. Fast and cheap.

  There are vendors that now advertise IDE drive controllers
(nope, I can't put my hand on one at the moment) that support
up to four drives per controller.

- Dwight -
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