From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 22:35:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA07044 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:35:48 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA07032 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:35:45 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA10446 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:35:41 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA07193 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:35:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA04988 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:08:17 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509190508.HAA04988@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:08:17 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Didier Derny" at Sep 18, 95 11:37:44 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 688 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Didier Derny wrote: > > I mean that we generally have to pay an extra price for SCSI devices > on PC. You can by an IDE controller for 20$ but an adaptec controller > is about 120$. You can buy an IDE _adapter_ for $20 (basically 2 74F245's plus a PAL -- $18.95 of the price are for the FDC on the same board :), but an (E)IDE _controller_ with roughly the same functionality like a SCSI controller is almost in the same price range. You can compare a dumb IDE adapter at best with something like an ST-01 (and hey, they're also cheap!). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)