On Jul 12,  3:13pm, der Mouse wrote:
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} Is this actually true?  I thought modern IDE interfaces were just as
} capable of "start it and forget it" operation as any SCSI interface.
} (And don't forget that SCSI interfaces demanding PIO exist, though
} quite possibly not for i386 machines.)

     Many of the lower-end ISA cards are PIO.  The only ISA SCSI cards
that I know about that are bus-mastering are the Adaptec 154x and the
Buslogic cards.

} In fact, quite aside from all the reasons to prefer one or the other in
} isolation, I would always go with SCSI because then I can use the
} drives anywhere; with IDE I'm much more restricted (Intel, some Alphas,
} a few of the more recent Suns, anything else?).  Of course, whether

     Macs in the last five years or so.

}-- End of excerpt from der Mouse