What do you mean, you can have multiple outstanding reads like in SCSI?
I thought the IDE protocol was fundamentally unable to handle the
concept.
I also thought that IDE drives have been transparently remapping bad
blocks (and failing only when they run out of spares) for quite a few
years now.
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Jonathan Graehl
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> The newer IBM ATA drives do auto reallocate. It was that and
> the fact that
> they now do tagged multiple commands that has convinced me
> that parallel SCSI
> is now almost pointless for workstations (and even for RAID
> units). And with
> SCSI over IP coming along nicely, fibre channel SCSI is also
> dead. I gotta get
> init a new line of work......
>
> -matt
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