In message <16047.64622.926054.354309@ke1g.mv.com>, Bill Freeman writes:
>Robert Heller writes:
> > Bill Freeman <f@ke1g.mv.com>,
>...
> > ... In any case, it makes me very glad
> > that I have managed to mostly avoid the whole IDE mess in the first
> > place. The *only* IDE device I have to deal with is the hard drive in
> > my laptop -- ALL of the rest of my computers are 100% SCSI (Hard
> > drives, CD-ROM, tape drive, Zip drive, ORB drive, and Scanner). These
> > sorts of sillienesses don't happen in the SCSI world -- *my* Zip drive
> > is properly handled as a partitioned device (/dev/sdcN). ...
>
> I congratulate you upon your wealth. And I congratulate the
>developers of the SCSI drivers on their clairvoyance in not splitting
>the upper level drivers in such a way that removable media was assumed
>to be unpartitioned. But, at least until the New Hampshire high tech
>job market improves, I'll be living with the hand-me-downs that I
>have.
It is not a matter of wealth. SCSI devices are not really that much
more expensive. Often over the long run they are often *cheaper*, since
they often last 2-3 times longer.
And no clairvoyance was involved in the how the upper level SCSI drivers
were written. The SCSI protocol standard does not have any distintion
about removable media read/write disk drives being any different from
non removable media read/write disk drives. There is not "SCSI Floppy
disk driver", since such a driver makes no sense.
>
> Bill
>
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