From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 16:34:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29854 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:34:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29846; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA16257; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:20:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611230020.RAA16257@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:20:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, sos@freebsd.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark Mayo" at Nov 22, 96 06:30:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > FWIW: > > > > Our company just bought a bunch of Micron machines. They are all SCSI, > > and they were not special order. > > I'm assuming they were part of the "high-end" line at Micron -- I just > checked their ads and they ship SCSI on the high-end line. THis makes > sense.. but the point is that anyone buying the best in a PC _should_ know > the advantages of SCSI, and will probably request SCSI if the machine > doesn't ship with SCSI by default. Still, most people (I'd best 90% of > PC's sold today) are shipped with ATAPI CDROMS -- and EIDE hard drives. > When I was saying ALL, I meant damn near ALL... My only point was that this is apparently changing... and basing a decision on "this is the way it always has been, so this is the way it will always be" is a bad idea in general, and seems to be becoming false in this particular case. Assuming the Micron change from ATAPI to SCSI on their high end represents a trend. > We NEED better IDE/ATAPI support. I dont' have a big enough brain to write > this stuff myself, but I will conribute whatever I can to help the cause. For now this is very true... but it might be possible to wait the thing out. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.