Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:34:56 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Didier Derny <didier@aida.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... Message-ID: <199509182034.QAA09938@etinc.com>
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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. Get real. Marketing 101. VOLUME. IDE to SCSI sales have to be 1000 to 1. No rocket scientist's degree needed here. If its not in a Novell server or a unix box, its probably IDE. SCSI controllers are also much more functional than IDEs. Have you priced a bus-mastering IDE with a boot bios lately? No such animal. db ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Boards and Routers for Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC and X.25
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