On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Drew wrote: >> I blame Adaptec for the dominance of IDE. 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. I loved the mid-90s saying... SCSI is like voodoo: it all depends on where you stick the pins. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/