From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 11:15:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08079 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guarany.cpd.unb.br (guarany.cpd.unb.br [164.41.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08072 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from antares.linf.unb.br by guarany.cpd.unb.br (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA19388; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:08:28 -0300 Received: from pegasus by antares.linf.unb.br (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15271; Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:16:57 WST From: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) Message-Id: <9607171916.AA15271@antares.linf.unb.br> Subject: ATAPI To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:17:46 -0400 (WST) In-Reply-To: <199607171407.HAA08167@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Jul 17, 96 07:07:01 am Disclaimer: Klaatu Barada Nikto! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:11:25 -0700 > Subject: Re: IDE > > > *I* am not. Does this mean I'm not relevant? I thought FreeBSD took > > outside US customers seriously. > > Boy, is this guy ever eager to take offense where none was even > remotely implied! :-) > > Terry was asking a *question* here, to determine whether or not the > individual making claims that SCSI was significantly higher-priced was > speaking from a US market perspective (where they're cheaper) or from Ok, maybe I overreacted. But the fact is that I fail to see why does it matters if the prices were inside US or not. If the answer to that question was a "yes", what would it prove besides that that person in particular was wrong about prices? Will it change the reality in other countries? Will it have any significance at all on the development of FreeBSD? I'm sorry, but this "it doesn't work because it's cheap stuff" talk just don't fit me. It works on OS/2, which is multitasking and has a lot of problems with device drivers, so it is _possible_ to do it. Not doing it because people shouldn't buy cheap stuff is no excuse, imho. > > 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. > > So help fix them. I will. I having been too busy with something that was finish today, so I'll start tinkering with it tomorrow (I need some sleep first.. :). What's the most appropriate list for this? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) e8917523@linf.unb.br * Psychiatric Hospital? And everyone there is an FBI agent? *