Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:14:23 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: ATAPI Vs Scsi Message-ID: <199611241214.NAA00505@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611231921.LAA27787@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Nov 23, 96 11:21:00 am"
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Amancio Hasty writes: >> From The Desk Of Joel Ray Holveck : >> >> Yes, I've seen other indications of this. It might mark a trend >> towards maturity in the market: even Micosloth users are gradually >> asking why this expensive "operating system" keeps crashing, and >> people with multimedia applications probably wonder why programs >> sometimes hang for half a second before continuing. The German trade >> magazines (not necessarily reliable) claim that there's a trend >> towards SCSI, too. > > My concern about IDE is that at least for a development is kind of nice > to be able to add drives as the need arises additionally, the ease of > configuration -- well sort of, we know about the scsi cables , terminators, > etc.. however if one can agree on the configuration for scsi busses > at least for your company then it is easy to add/remove drives. > For instance, lets assume that my development sources reside on a > separate disk at the end of the day I can take the external disk home > and keep working (assuming that one has a similar setup at home). Agreed. I'm doing that right now, in fact, copying a complete disk just by hanging it in the string. Just a pity you have to reboot to do so. Greg
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