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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 1995 03:59:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR>
To:        mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers' list), questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD suffer from the Intel RZ1000 IDE bug?
Message-ID:  <199509170159.DAA01550@keltia.Freenix.FR>
In-Reply-To: <199509161640.KAA26168@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Sep 16, 95 10:40:24 am

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It seems that Ade Barkah said:
> Yes, I'd go with SCSI for high end machines. Even so, the
> "reasonable max" for IDE systems will always go up. At
> least one manufacturer is developing a 3.4 gb EIDE drive,
> and some computers can take four IDE drives (two controllers).

It will run only on PC. SCSI will run evevywhere.

What interest to make IDE  be like SCSI ?  Why spend  millions of bucks  in
research to make IDE the all-singing-PC-interface when SCSI is here *now* ? 

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
 FreeBSD keltia.Freenix.FR 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Sep 10 18:50:19 MET DST 1995



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