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SubjectRe: UDMA problems
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In message <199901012231.RAA19512@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>, Kev writes:
+-----
| > Sigh. Why can't the industry finally admit ATA/IDE/etc is a kludge and
| > switch to SCSI?
|
| Because SCSI is better.
+--->8

Paranoid, are we? :-)

It's because IDE is cheaper: it's really a sort of early Win-device, making
the CPU do the work to save on hardware costs.

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