From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 10:57:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA08519 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:57:11 -0700 Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA08511 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:57:04 -0700 Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA04344; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 19:50:23 +0200 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 19:50:23 +0200 Message-Id: <199509271750.TAA04344@silver.sms.fi> From: Petri Helenius To: "Doug S." Cc: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC configuration advice wanted. In-Reply-To: References: <9509271436.AA19399@paloverde.sybgate.sybase.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Doug S. writes: > > Yes, and if youre creating a solution to take advantage of *one* OS > or application, then you *may* find a SCSI implementation that supports > your hardware and software. However, if you (as many of us are) want to > remain as standardized as is reasonable, to take advantage of various > OSs, then (E)IDE is (currently) the *only* way to go. > Complete bullshit. For example AHA-2940 is supported by all major operating systems available to PC, without the hassles of getting the (E)IDE to work with software X that can handle only NNNN heads or NNN cyls. Pete