Re: Disk Drives

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

of course not, Al, and you know that, what I meant
was that the part of the total price of the disk drive
that is due to the writing of the microcode is so small
that it is for all intents of purposes free.
Now, you could maintain that the driver code for
the same disk drive when used in an AS/400 is
so much more difficult to write than the code for
the drive when used in the xSeries that that explains
the difference, but if so, the AS/400 deserves to go.

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Barsa/Barsa Consulting <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Drives


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> Do you mean to imply that the folks in Rochester who wrote that microcode
> wrote it for love, as opposed to being paid a salary?
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> Al - on the way from the NES conference in Framingham to Charlotte on
> vacation for Easter,
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> From: Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) <LGoodbar@afs.bwauto.com>
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> > Also, keep in mind that AS/400s use SCSI type disks, not IDE type. Is
> there
> > a PC SCSI 17GB drive for $200? Also formatted differently (520-byte
> sectors
> > versus 512 on PC). Maybe more microcode on drive's controller board to
> > support AS/400 communications.
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> microcode does not cost money
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