Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:03:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Cc: terry@lambert.org, sos@freebsd.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) Message-ID: <199611232103.OAA19388@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961123002752.25434A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Nov 23, 96 00:40:31 am
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> 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? 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. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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