Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:08:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: dennis@etinc.com, terry@lambert.org, mrm@mole.mole.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <199607181408.QAA05666@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607181254.FAA27245@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at "Jul 18, 96 05:54:24 am"
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(Moved to -chat, the technical contents of this discussion is rapidly dropping and being replaced by religion.) As M.R.Murphy wrote: > It astounds me that somebody can sell the IDE interface, in a box, > shrinkwrapped, with documentation, shipping, marketing, and retail > markup, for about $20. And they throw in cables, too. Did we > mention how much good SCSI cables and external enclosures for > the disk farm might cost? :-) :-) An NCR 53c810 is around $80. Still a bit more, but you can hang twice the devices on it. Internal SCSI cables are as inexpensive as internal IDE ones, and it's well-known that the rather uniform impedance across the length of a ribbon cable does make a perfect SCSI cabling as well. Of course, there's no such thing like an external IDE connector, nor an external IDE disk cabinet for that matter, so i wonder what you are comparing this against? ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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