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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:17:46 -0400 (WST)
From:      e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral)
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   ATAPI
Message-ID:  <9607171916.AA15271@antares.linf.unb.br>
In-Reply-To: <199607171407.HAA08167@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Jul 17, 96 07:07:01 am

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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:11:25 -0700
> Subject: Re: IDE 
> 
> > *I* am not. Does this mean I'm not relevant? I thought FreeBSD took
> > outside US customers seriously.
> 
> Boy, is this guy ever eager to take offense where none was even
> remotely implied! :-)
> 
> Terry was asking a *question* here, to determine whether or not the
> individual making claims that SCSI was significantly higher-priced was
> speaking from a US market perspective (where they're cheaper) or from

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? Will it change the reality in other
countries? Will it have any significance at all on the development of
FreeBSD?

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. 

> > I'd suggest stopping this non-sense about prices. I'm sure most people
> > here (who doesn't have SCSI) would buy SCSI devices if they could. And
> > even if that was not the case, that's simply no excuse for lame drivers.
> 
> So help fix them.

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?

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral                (8-DCS)
e8917523@linf.unb.br

	* Psychiatric Hospital? And everyone there is an FBI agent? *



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