From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 31 20:35:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA29166 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from trojanhorse.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA29158 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by trojanhorse.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00770 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:34:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:34:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: IDE Drive Economy Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Someone earlier mentioned that they had found an ide drive which they wanted a ide to scsi converter. I am particualrily curious as to if anybody in this community would be interested in an IDE drive controller able to handle >4 drives (not in master/slave configuration) using completely physically seperate interfaces. I know that scsi is supposed to be better, but are SCSI drives (I mean the physical disk hardware) of higher quality or is it just the controller architecture that is deficient. It is unlikely that home users will just suddenly start buying mass quantities of scsi interface drives, so they will probably continue to be inproportionately expensive.