> Without getting into technical details (which I'm sort of fuzzy on anyway)
> suffice it to say that SCSI has been the recognized leader in speed
between
> the hard drive and the system.  Even with the recent ATA133 standard, SCSI
> seems to be able to stay just a step ahead with a 160MB/s bus.  Also, you
> can daisy-chain up to seven devices on a single SCSI bus, where you are
> restricted to two with a single IDE channel.  No restriction that I know
of
> on the number of IDE channels you can have, though another lister might
need
> to pop in to verify that one.

There are SCSI specifications that cover 320MB/s now. And with a Wide
interface, you can have up to 15 devices on one bus.

Russ Poffenberger
Engineering Specialist
NPTest, Inc.
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