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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!generics!bad From: bad@generics.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives Organization: Generics GmbH Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:32:19 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct2.173219.11345@generics.ka.sub.org> References: <1992Sep24.022400.19483@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bv32LD.K9t@chinet.chi.il.us> <id.O7NT.0O3@ferranti.com> <1992Sep29.140117.3352@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Lines: 16 pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes: >In article <id.O7NT.0O3@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: >>Not unless you really compromise on the quality of the drives, or unless >>you've got some sort of special deal. Street prices vary by $20-$50 for >>the same drive in SCSI and IDE versions. >Uh, wait a minute. The mechanisms are about the same. But have you ever >compared price of controllers? Mine was $10. How much is an Adaptec 1542? And how much is your tape controller? You know, you could buy a SCSI tape and hook it to the 1542. And next your CD-ROM, and your optical, and your third disk... -- Christoph Badura bad@generics.ka.sub.org