From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 19:25:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA17621 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 19:25:25 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA17580 ; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 19:25:17 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id EAA15685 ; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 04:25:13 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id EAA26009 ; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 04:25:11 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.Freenix.FR (8.7.Beta.14/keltia-uucp-2.4) id DAA01550; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 03:59:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199509170159.DAA01550@keltia.Freenix.FR> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD suffer from the Intel RZ1000 IDE bug? To: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 03:59:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers' list), questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199509161640.KAA26168@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Sep 16, 95 10:40:24 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1085 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a+] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk It seems that Ade Barkah said: > Yes, I'd go with SCSI for high end machines. Even so, the > "reasonable max" for IDE systems will always go up. At > least one manufacturer is developing a 3.4 gb EIDE drive, > and some computers can take four IDE drives (two controllers). It will run only on PC. SCSI will run evevywhere. What interest to make IDE be like SCSI ? Why spend millions of bucks in research to make IDE the all-singing-PC-interface when SCSI is here *now* ? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.Freenix.FR 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Sep 10 18:50:19 MET DST 1995