From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 23 13:29:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA14135 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:29:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA14127; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA28767; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:27:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:27:13 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: Terry Lambert cc: sos@freebsd.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) In-Reply-To: <199611232103.OAA19388@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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