From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 13:32:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA00935 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:32:09 -0700 Received: from etinc.com (etinc-gw.new-york.net [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA00926 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:32:04 -0700 Received: from websurfer.etinc.com (websurfer.etinc.com [204.141.95.5]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA09938; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:34:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:34:56 -0400 Message-Id: <199509182034.QAA09938@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Didier Derny From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... Cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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. 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