Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:47:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Didier Derny <didier@aida.org> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: jdl@chromatic.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950918234318.257C-100000@aida> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950917093414.5362F-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, John Fieber wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, Didier Derny wrote: > > > I can't see any reason why the SCSI controller and devices are so expensive. > > Marketing. If you look around, the devices are pretty competitive, thanks > to Apple for creating a mass market, but the PC SCSI controllers are > outrageous. I think it is because the billions of PC users have it in > their head that SCSI == server hardware == expensive and that is the end. > They never think a little further and ask "Does it really have to be that > expensive?". They never looked in an Amiga magazine and discovered that a > decent controller can be had for around US$70. I *know* it isn't the fact > that relative to IDE, SCSI controllers don't have a big enough market to > be low-cost. I wouldn't be surprised if Adaptec sells more SCSI > controllers in a month than most 3rd party SCSI manufactures for the Amiga > sold in their lifetime. > > And for the devices, SCSI devices are a much better investment because > they are platform independent. For example, one of my (recently deceased) > hard drives started life in an HP 720, lived in an Amiga for a couple > years and then in a PC for a couple years. My tape drive has a similar > story, although I don't know where it started life. Had I used some > platform specific specific device devices, I would have had to ditch a > tape drive and 3 hard drives when I switched platforms a couple years ago > (amiga->pc). That would have far more expensive than an outrageously > priced PC SCSI controller, never mind a reasonably priced one. > > Buy SCSI. You won't regret it. Low end Macintosh and Amigas use SCSI, > why not low end PC clowns? Just say NO to IDE! > > -john > > == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== > == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============ > > for me the live with SCSI started in 1983 when I worked for Procep: The french Importator of Commodore computers. Procep wanted a hard disk for the CBM8032 so we started to develope a SASI interface for the CBM before the end of this project the SASI interface was renamed SCSI. My first driver was written with 256 Instructions of 6502 assembly language. I liked the philosophy of this system. So I try to buy a SCSI interface for my PC as soon as I have been able to afford it. -- Didier Derny didier@aida.org --- I boycott everything from: new zealand, australia, denmark, england
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