Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:20:04 -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: <199611230020.RAA16257@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961122182400.24652A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Nov 22, 96 06:30:00 pm
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> > FWIW: > > > > Our company just bought a bunch of Micron machines. They are all SCSI, > > and they were not special order. > > I'm assuming they were part of the "high-end" line at Micron -- I just > checked their ads and they ship SCSI on the high-end line. THis makes > sense.. but the point is that anyone buying the best in a PC _should_ know > the advantages of SCSI, and will probably request SCSI if the machine > doesn't ship with SCSI by default. Still, most people (I'd best 90% of > PC's sold today) are shipped with ATAPI CDROMS -- and EIDE hard drives. > When I was saying ALL, I meant damn near ALL... My only point was that this is apparently changing... and basing a decision on "this is the way it always has been, so this is the way it will always be" is a bad idea in general, and seems to be becoming false in this particular case. Assuming the Micron change from ATAPI to SCSI on their high end represents a trend. > We NEED better IDE/ATAPI support. I dont' have a big enough brain to write > this stuff myself, but I will conribute whatever I can to help the cause. For now this is very true... but it might be possible to wait the thing out. 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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