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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
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