Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:40:31 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: sos@freebsd.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961123002752.25434A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199611230020.RAA16257@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > FWIW: > > > > > > Our company just bought a bunch of Micron machines. They are all SCSI, > > > and they were not special order. > > My only point was that this is apparently changing... and basing > a decision on "this is the way it always has been, so this is the > way it will always be" is a bad idea in general, and seems to be > becoming false in this particular case. Assuming the Micron change > from ATAPI to SCSI on their high end represents a trend. > This isn't a change for Micron - they've always shipped SCSI on the high-end boxen. It's one of the reasons I've always been fond of Micron! I really don't agree that this is a representation of a trend -- I've talked to several managers at local stores (including Compucenter, a big "mall" computer store in Canada at least) and none of them are seeing any significant moves towards SCSI. Many of them actually feel that with the "progress" that IDE is making, it will soon surpass and completely replace SCSI. Now, before you scream, let it be known that I think this is completely rediculous, and that I had trouble controlling myself when talking to these managers :-) The Bottom line is that, whether the IDE myths of equal performance to SCSI are true or not, most consumers and dealers don't even give a thought about SCSI. They think IDE is the best thing since sliced bread. This thinking, combined with the dirt cheap prices of IDE, means that IDE is here to stay - it sells. > > > We NEED better IDE/ATAPI support. I dont' have a big enough brain to write > > this stuff myself, but I will conribute whatever I can to help the cause. > > For now this is very true... but it might be possible to wait the > thing out. > I really wish that were true. I just don't think it's going to happen though.... I'd be as happy as you or anyone else if IDE vanished from the face of the earth - and take win95 and microsoft with it.... but it just ain't going to happen. Damn consumer driven economies ;) -Mark > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > --------------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | RingZero Comp. vinyl.quickweb.com/mark | --------------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch
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