From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 22:24:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06969 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (we-refuse-to-spy-on-our-users@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA06964 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id BAA07086; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:24:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:24:35 -0400 Message-Id: <199706190524.BAA07086@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: tom@sdf.com CC: ksmm@cybercom.net, troyc@sandy.merix.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Tom Samplonius on Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:55:50 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [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