Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:39:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI Message-ID: <199607172239.PAA05737@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9607171916.AA15271@antares.linf.unb.br> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Jul 17, 96 03:17:46 pm
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> Ok, maybe I overreacted. But the fact is that I fail to see why does it > matters if the prices were inside US or not. If the answer to that > question was a "yes", what would it prove besides that that person in > particular was wrong about prices? That it was incorrect for him to make blanket statements, and that The Way Things Are is not necessarily The Way Things Will Always Be, even if you aren't in the US... what non-US people have to worry about is propagation delay. > Will it change the reality in other countries? Eventually, yes. > Will it have any significance at all on the development of FreeBSD? No, in that it will not encourage people with SCSI to buy EIDE/IDE controllers and drive with which to write drivers for the admittedly non-standard interface. > I'm sorry, but this "it doesn't work because it's cheap stuff" talk just > don't fit me. It works on OS/2, which is multitasking and has a lot of > problems with device drivers, so it is _possible_ to do it. Not doing it > because people shouldn't buy cheap stuff is no excuse, imho. "Cheap" is not the argument. Technologically immature is. Try using a WD and Quantum IDE drive as master and slave in the same machine. I believe EIDE is in the same position as SCSI was when it first came out: everyone is implementing their own idea of the standard, and unfortunately, they have ATAPI to force the software to fill in glue where theyre should be metal. I would not have recommended SCSI back when Apple and IOmega were first hashing it out... and I would not recommend IDE/EIDE now. Ask me again in about 4 years. [ ... Jordan adminishing fixes ... ] > I will. I having been too busy with something that was finish today, so > I'll start tinkering with it tomorrow (I need some sleep first.. :). > > What's the most appropriate list for this? -hackers is appropriate. So is -current, if you develope there instead of in a release kernel environment. 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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