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From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
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Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:32:34 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com, terry@lambert.org,
        mrm@mole.mole.org
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