Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:24:35 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: tom@sdf.com Cc: ksmm@cybercom.net, troyc@sandy.merix.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) Message-ID: <199706190524.BAA07086@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970618185355.12033A-100000@misery.sdf.com> (message from Tom Samplonius on Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:55:50 -0700 (PDT))
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[moved to -chat instead of cross-psoting to -hackers and -chat] >> any other similar drive. The media is everywhere--computer stores, office >> supply stores, technical bookstores. And we all know somebody that has >> one, so they're well-tested and great for exchanging with friends. > Don't forget that Zip is available is a SCSI version, which makes it >usable on non-intel systems like Mac, Sparc, and SGI. I don't believe >that an IDE-only solution will take off for this reason. Macs recently started using IDE. But I don't know how well the (laughable) ATAPI/IDE standard handles cross-platform issues. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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