From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 04:28:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA12990 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 04:28:02 -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 EAA12971 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 04:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA17426; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:40:51 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA20514; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:40:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA04300; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:40:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607180840.KAA04300@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ATAPI To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:40:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607172239.PAA05737@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 17, 96 03:39:53 pm" 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-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > I believe EIDE is in the same position as SCSI was when it first > came out: everyone is implementing their own idea of the standard, > and unfortunately, they have ATAPI to force the software to fill in > glue where theyre should be metal. One of the better (not boring stuff only :) German computer magazines summarized EIDE by the time it popped up as something that tries to solve problems that SCSI does already have solved (with SCSI more evolving into wide and fast), but which will eventually go through all the mistakes SCSI had to go through in the beginning, solving them step by step. They are trying to catch up with SCSI, and by the time they have done, SCSI will already be more advanced... This was a couple of years ago. They could have written it yesterday as well. -- 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. ;-)