Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:14:44 GMT From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and ASUS P/I-P6NP5 Message-ID: <199609130114.BAA03948@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <521.842510031@time.cdrom.com> you wrote: : 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 But we have to have it... along with the usual "FreeBSD vs. Linux", "Why not to buy Matrox", and "Willows Windows Emulator?" threads :) [cut] : 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. :-) Unfortunately the people most likely to be technically capable of doing this sort of work won't because they probably run SCSI, and hence have _zero_ motivation for doing this. When someone decides to produce more than hot air on this issue then we'll probably see something. I'm quite happy with the situation because I run SCSI with one large IDE for some bulk storage... Keep up the good work! :) Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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