[geeks] Public Apology

[Ryn]

For desktop machines, I see no reason to purchase SCSI disks. Most IDE
drives support command queuing and bus mastering (depends on the IDE 
controller). What I/O advantage are you seeing in comparison to your friend?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Kirby" <kris at catonic.net>
To: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
Cc: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 9:08 AM
Subject: [geeks] Public Apology


> Dave,
> 
>  you were right. those damn llamas are clueless. I just had a `rousing'
> conversation with a L1/\/UX weenie who is buying a pair of gigabit
> ethernet cards because 100Base-T isn't fast enough.
> 
> Then we schooled him on 1Gb/s == 125MB/s, and PCI is only 133MB/s.
> 
> what a dumbass.
> 
> it wouldn't be that bad, but daddy is buying all of his hardware...
> 
> oh, and he's got a 100GB, a 60GB, and a 40GB. completely clueless as to
> why my SCSI system r0xX0rs and his IDE suxX0rs.
> 
> fuck. i just want to choke him.
> 
> --
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> <kris at nospam.catonic.net>   | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL.
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