Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:08:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Cc: ksmm@cybercom.net, troyc@sandy.merix.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970618230404.12213A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199706190524.BAA07086@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > [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. As I recall, IDE cables are limited to 18 inches. Not so good for an external device. Plus is there a standard for an external IDE connector? Plus, if these drives actually gain wide acceptance, it will really limit expansion: you can only have 2 IDE busses, with 2 devices each, and so desktop systems will now only have only have one free position for expansion (one for hd, one for cdrom, one for LS 120). Not so cool... > 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 > > Tom
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