Macs and PCs vs workstations

[Zane H. Healy]

> On 7/8/06 19:17, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I finally used IDE on an Alpha for the first time this last week on one of
> > my new XP1000's.  It wasn't stellar, but as I was booting from CD-ROM, I
> > didn't expect much.
> 
> Thanks for reminding me - my Alpha DS10 was, according to the Alpha
> Technologies course, designed to be an IDE machine out of the box despite
> that every DS10 I've worked on ever had a Qlogic QLA1040 (or equivalent)
> SCSI board in running 2 or 3 U2/U3 SCSI drives. Time to dig out a spare IDE
> drive and see how different the speed is!
> 
> -- 
> Adrian/Witchy

I'm actually threatening to put a large ~250GB IDE drive in my XP1000/667,
as a backup device.  Shouldn't be to hard to create a batch job that backs
up the drives in the middle of the night and resubmits itself.  Though it
has been quite a while since I did any serious DCL scripting.  As the system
has a built in UW-SCSI, plus I've added U2W-SCSI, and FW-SCSI-Diff, I have
no desire to try and actually run on IDE! 

I'm thinking regular backups to the IDE drive, and occasional backups to
DLT.

		Zane