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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives
Message-ID: <1992Sep23.212547.15460@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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References: <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <19posaINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 21:25:47 GMT
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In article <19posaINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
>In article <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
>> I've been told (by a
>> dealer) that Unix in general doesn't work properly with IDE, but he
>> was unable actually to tell me why.
>
>Go and buy your hardware from a different dealer in the future.
>I don't mind people admitting they don't know a thing about Unix, but that's no
>reasoon for telliung lies.
Actually, IDE isn't an optimal technology for UNIX. What I got was
the dealer saying "Unix in general doesn't work properly with IDE" meant
non-optimal. Apparently you got "doesn't work at all" out of it.
If the dealer meant what I thought he meant, marry him! He is
your dealer-for-life! Most dealers simply sell what they can get the
highest margin on, and that he was even comfortable enough with the idea
to mention it means he is probably more than a suit full of marketing
literature, which puts him light years ahead of many dealers I've known!
I personally wouldn't buy an IDE because of geometry translation,
and there's one Maxtor SCSI drive, so far, in the same boat. I like the
UFS caching and optimization to actually result in a speedup, and it
can't on a geometry translated drive (see my other tirade 8-)).
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@npd.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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