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Subject: Re: hmmmm....
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 09:49:06 CDT

At 5:21 PM -0600 2000/9/19, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> Bleeding edge ATAPI disks now support tagged commands ala SCSI. If your
> kernel supports this ATAPI can be as fast as SCSI, and at a fraction of
> the price.

        In fact, thanks to Søren, FreeBSD is now the first OS to support
tagged commands with ATAPI devices, but my personal preference
remains with using SCSI over IDE/EIDE/UDMA/ATAPI devices. 

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