On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Julian got struck by lightning; perhaps he will now stick to disks
> > > with built-in lightning rods (e.g. not succeptible to this failure),
> > > e.g. SCSI.
> >
> > This is an urban ledgend..
>
> That SCSI disks don't use random inter-record gap placement like
> IDE does, particularly on the "multimedia" drives that ignore the
> need for thermal recalibration, so as to not make video capture
> "jittery"?
>
> Or that SCSI II directly supports low level track formatting,
> without requiring a "magic tool"?
>
> 8-) 8-).
According to the specs I had access to at Whistle they were pretty much
the same low level device with different interface logic.
The ATA drives I have seen had a format capacity
just like their scsi cousins, just hard to find.
>
> -- Terry
>
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