Upgrading early BIOS

[Jules Richardson]

Eric J Korpela wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jules Richardson
> <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Given that IDE was more
>> accessible due to it being cheaper technology, I'm surprised that it too
>> didn't gain a reputation for requiring goat sacrifices and the like that
>> SCSI did. I suppose cost wins out over common sense at times...
> 
> I'll give some additional reasons...
> [snip]

Hmm, good points... I suppose I never really thought of the DB-25 Apple SCSI 
(or those bloody SCSI Iomega drives) as being "real SCSI", but maybe that was 
a lot of peoples' first exposure to the technology.

The termination issue's always puzzled me, because the rules for how and when 
to terminate have seemed so clear. I agree that auto-termination was one of 
those features that never should have happened, though - it does seem prone to 
screwing things up.

> I'm totally off tape.  Our experience with DLT is that the drives
> don't last, transfer rates are too slow, and the media are too
> unreliable and too expensive.

I've never had any issues to be honest. I've heard lots of bad things about 
the DLT-8000 technology, though.

> it's too expensive when you can get 750GB SATA drives for $150. 

I keep waiting for a hard disk vendor to come out with a 'backup drive' which 
has an unloadable head assembly and the platter stack in a removable pack, 
accessible through the front of the machine - just like the olden days :-)

cheers

Jules