Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:32:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com, terry@lambert.org, mrm@mole.mole.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <199607182132.QAA04453@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <199607181408.QAA05666@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jul 18, 96 04:08:47 pm"
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J Wunsch wrote: > (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? ;-) Also, isn't IDE cable length limited to something like 18 inches? That would certainly restrict the usefulness of external devices. -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX
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