Drew wrote:
I blame Adaptec for the dominance of IDE. Â Seriously.
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.
<snip> Huh - odd. I know it didn't take me very long (once I'd gotten a used SIIG SCSI card from a co-worker) to get my SCSI scanner up and running under Win95 (and I still have both the card and the scanner....)
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