Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:27:13 -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.3.94.961123162133.28760A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199611232103.OAA19388@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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 :-) > > How do these managers intend to interface the JAZ drives they sell, > considering there is no such thing as an IDE JAZ drive? By selling IOMega's 'Jaz Accelerator' card ;-) > > Clearly, they are not aware that ATAPI is a standard for using SCSI > commands to talk over an IDE bus... IDE will *never* kill SCSI, as > long as it is required internally by IDE. > A reduced command set at that.. and I really don't think IDE will replace SCSI, but we're dealing with PC's here. Cheap is the name of the game. All I wanted to say is that I just don't think IDE will drop by the way-side anytime soon -- at least not soon enough to "put-off" supporting it. -mark > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org --------------------------------------------------- | 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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