Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:32:40 -0400 (WST) From: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: IDE Message-ID: <9607171231.AA25214@antares.linf.unb.br> In-Reply-To: <199607170243.TAA06416@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Jul 16, 96 07:43:20 pm
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> From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:28:43 -0700 (MST) > Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM > > Are you not in the US? *I* am not. Does this mean I'm not relevant? I thought FreeBSD took outside US customers seriously. > Buy a Computer Shopper, look up "Dirt Cheap Drives". > > Compare SCSI vs. IDE. > > You are apparently buying from the wrong middleman... Well, for me, and I assure you I'm _not_ buying from the wrong middleman, it costs from $400 to $500 *more* to buy a SCSI CD-ROM drive. I could buy two IDE CD-ROM drives with that difference. > From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:47:50 -0600 (MDT) > Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM > > IDE mainboards still only support 2 devices, which is not enough IDE > devices for many folks. You haven't been using IDE lately, right? Most mainboards, specially Pentium ones, now comes with primary _and_ secondary IDE builtin. That's four devices. And the $60 secondary IDE you mentioned costed me $25. Actually, it's a primary and secondary IDE board. I'd suggest stopping this non-sense about prices. I'm sure most people here (who doesn't have SCSI) would buy SCSI devices if they could. And even if that was not the case, that's simply no excuse for lame drivers. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) e8917523@linf.unb.br * Psychiatric Hospital? And everyone there is an FBI agent? *
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