From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 18 07:33:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA20740 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA20728 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA26210; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:20:53 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA22719; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:20:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA05666; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:08:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607181408.QAA05666@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:08:47 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, terry@lambert.org, mrm@mole.mole.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607181254.FAA27245@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at "Jul 18, 96 05:54:24 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved to -chat, the technical contents of this discussion is rapidly dropping and being replaced by religion.) As M.R.Murphy wrote: > It astounds me that somebody can sell the IDE interface, in a box, > shrinkwrapped, with documentation, shipping, marketing, and retail > markup, for about $20. And they throw in cables, too. Did we > mention how much good SCSI cables and external enclosures for > the disk farm might cost? :-) :-) An NCR 53c810 is around $80. Still a bit more, but you can hang twice the devices on it. Internal SCSI cables are as inexpensive as internal IDE ones, and it's well-known that the rather uniform impedance across the length of a ribbon cable does make a perfect SCSI cabling as well. Of course, there's no such thing like an external IDE connector, nor an external IDE disk cabinet for that matter, so i wonder what you are comparing this against? ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)