Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:03:17 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) Message-ID: <19970619090317.EZ61808@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970618230404.12213A-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Jun 18, 1997 23:08:05 -0700 References: <199706190524.BAA07086@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970618230404.12213A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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As Tom Samplonius wrote: > Plus, if these drives actually gain wide acceptance, it will really > limit expansion: you can only have 2 IDE busses, ... Not to defend IDE (the so-called `standard' is really laughable, and always makes me wonder why the heck most of the drives apparently work at all), but who says you can have only two busses? Of course, in the PeeCee world, it would require a vendor shipping something like PCI boards for another couple of IDE busses, but the thread was about non-PeeCees, so they might not opt to self-limit as the PeeCee world did. -- 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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