From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 12:53:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA28513 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:53:02 -0700 Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (root@pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA28253 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:49:15 -0700 Received: (from didier@localhost) by aida (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA00367; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:47:28 +0200 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:47:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Didier Derny X-Sender: didier@aida To: John Fieber cc: jdl@chromatic.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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