In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006070723370.18770-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk> James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
>> ok, you might argue that you only have N slots in your machine --
>> there are some pretty nice quad-tulip cards available, i don't see why
>> people shouldn't make quad-IDE controllers (2 busses per controller =>
>> 16 devices.)
> I think I've seen a couple around; my current motherboard has four IDE
> channels on, too.
And you still want to call it "cost 0" ? With such logic I can count "cost 0"
for our server SCSI adapter (two in fact) and some "40$" for IDE (there are
no built-in IDE on PowerEdge 2300's motherboard)... Still IDE disks are MUCH
cheaper :-/
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