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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: serial port devices, 64 head disk drives Message-ID: <id.HWWK1.NTG@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <3s2ehj$l8a@stork.qut.edu.au> <3s2tdn$aqj@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU> <wgbDAEsKy.E2z@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 00:03:07 GMT Lines: 18 In article <wgbDAEsKy.E2z@netcom.com>, Bill Bosacker <wgb@netcom.com> wrote: > Actually I have a better idea. DON'T USE FREEBSD!!! This has been a > problem from the beginning and no one on the core team can decide on > what to do about. I have a better idea. Don't use IDE at all. Stick to SCSI. IDE is a kludge of the highest order, and things like LBA (and a variety of other incompatible mappings that controllers have used in the past) are just patches on the side of the kludge. SCSI just uses sector numbers. Much more logical. And SCSI supports real tape and more and better CDROMs and all sorts of interesting devices that IDE and other ST506 derivitives can't manage. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"