Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:33:51 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: brianc@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: IDE and ASUS P/I-P6NP5 Message-ID: <521.842510031@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:45:26 EDT." <199609120445.AAA08120@ottawa.net>
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Hey, folks, I think this whole SCSI vs IDE debate sort of misses the fundamental point, which has nothing at all to do with "which is better." We're in the business of providing an operating system with FreeBSD, which means that the decision making process should always go like this: 1. Evaluate what the market is using, paying particular attention to what the existing and potential FreeBSD segments of it are inclined to buy. 2. Assign development priorities based on this data. 3. Identify existing human resources. 4. Match resources to projects. Of course I say "should" because we're a volunteer project, and we don't get to do everything the way the commercial boys do, so steps 3 and 4 get a lot more creative, usually more like: 3. Identify appropriate mailing lists to whine into, the volume and frequency of said whining being directly proportional to the importance of the task. 4. Wait for resources to match themselves to projects. :-) So when you sum it all up, I guess this means that IDE should be considered very important and dealt with accordingly as a large segment of the existing and potential market. At the same time, however, our volunteer nature brings it all down to who'll do the work, and step 4 in our modified list is what needs to happen now if any progress is to be made here. :-) Jordan
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