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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
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Subject: Re: EIDE drives
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Nadav Eiron:
 |I don't think FreeBSD's wdc driver uses these faster moeds, but I
 |haven't checked (IDE sucks anyhow).

But it sure is inexpensive :-)  I'll take more Gigs and a little slower
performance anyday.  Wouldn't put anything else on a home PC
myself, even though I have a SCSI controller (for my ZIP drive).

Randall Hopper