On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Drew wrote:
I blame Adaptec for the dominance of IDE. ÂSeriously.
If Adaptec A) hadn't had the lionshare of the SCSI mindset in the
PC business back in the 90s, and B) hadn't made so much overpriced
buggy crap, we'd all be using SCSI today.
Yes and No. I remember playing with it back in the 90's and what
drove me away from SCSI was the complexity of the standard. Yes
Adaptec made it harder then it had to be but IDE, for all it's
failings, was easier to use. You jumper'd one disk as master and one
as slave and it pretty much just worked. SCSI on the other hand, at
least in DOS/Win3/Win95/98, was a complex process involving TSR's
and fiddling with jumpers on the disks & HBA. I remember my father
spent six hours trying to get a simple SCSI scanner to work.
I loved the mid-90s saying...
SCSI is like voodoo: it all depends on where you stick the pins.
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