On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote:
> The overcost of SCSI compared ATA to is due to IDE being shoe-horned to
> user with motherboards. By the way, I have had to pay for IDE on all my
> MBs and I donnot use it.
FYI, If I could have it be strictly an ADD-ON card, every one would
benefit with the extra IRQ. Then I could change the rules even more.
> In my opinion, if IDE/ATA is allowed to be soldered in standard on
> motherboards, then Microsoft should be permitted to put everything they
> want in Windows kernel.
FYI: SCSI is "soldered in standard" on several servers.
As far as Microsoft goes, the miniport interface is the only way to keep
their closed source. If the hardware folks quit writing drives for
MircoSoft it would die on its own accord.
FYI: about 90% of all data in Linux pumps through ATA, like it or not.
My goal is to make it better for those who have to and/or chose to use it.
I do not force anyone to use ATA, it is their choice just like yours to
use SCSI.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
The MS kernel uses "miniport" as viagra!
Regardless, please continue to pee higher up the tree.
I am stepping back as enjoy the sight of the wind blowing back.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Jun 07 2000 - 21:00:24 EST