Today's systems

Disk geometry

Disk partitions

File system
 

Practical Approach

Hardware setup

Partitions

Mount

Automate mount

  1. SCSI (servers)

• SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) is an standard that has become one of the leading I/O buses in the computer industry.
• SCSI is an I/O bus that communicates between a peripheral and a controller on a host computer system. SCSI interfaces are most often used for disk and tape drives, scanners, printers and other devices. 

• multiple devices on one bus
• internal and external devices
• high speed 

• IDE (Integrated Drive Electrnics) is a standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard's data paths or bus and the computer's disk storage devices.

• up to two devices on one port / usually two ports per computer
• low price (half of price for SCSI devices)