From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 19 23:33:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA16786 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 23:33:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.internode.net (mail.internode.net [198.161.228.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA16781 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 23:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [198.161.228.103] by relay.internode.net (SMTPD32-3.02) id AC0023F0094; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:17:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970120073350.0073e868@internode.net> X-Sender: drussell@internode.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:33:50 -0700 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" , smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) From: Doug Russell Subject: Re: ASUS T2P4 and Adaptec 2940AU Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:49 AM 1/18/97 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >Again, we (the consumer) are getting screwed by the manufactures, most >if not all of them have stopped 2G and smaller SCSI drive production, >and shifted the bottom of the IDE curve to 2G. The smallest _current_ >production SCSI drive I can buy is 4G. > >1G and 2G drives can still be found in the channel, but most of these >are OEM overruns and/or excess inventory liqudations (at premium >prices since the high volume folks know they are a scarce product.) Western Digital rwecently introduced 4 new SCSI drives, all 7200 RPM, 2.0 and 4.0 gig, with Ultra, and Ultra Wide versions of the two sizes. The prices are in line with other U/UW drives, at least around here (dealer prices, Canada). >Shelved due to lack of time, caused by manufactures who keep me >running around trying to make their latest cost reductions work :-(. At least you aren't the only one with the same problems. :-( Later......