Hard drive spec change

[Felix Miata]

On 2010/03/11 23:23 (GMT+0100) drago01 composed:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

>> On 2010/03/11 12:10 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

>>> You know you can buy a PCI SATA controller card for about $10 in any PC
>>> junk store, right?

>> PC BIOS treat those as SCSI cards, which do not play nice with boot device
>> order control by the PC BIOS, if not OS device names. Even when neither is a
>> problem, it's no given that a PCI slot is available, or the junk store has
>> enough cards for all machines with dead HDs on the LAN.

> What exactly are you trying to say?

> "Do not support newer hardware to give vendors a reaons to sell old hardware" ?

Not even. Just don't use new technology as excuse to accelerate abandonment
of old hardware. New stuff does not instantly convert old stuff into bad
stuff. We don't force old BMWs into salvage yards just because new ones use
different sized tires. Tire manufacturers don't need to throw away the molds
for the old tire sizes, just as HD manufacturers don't need to throw away all
tooling for PATA HD interfaces. Old machines work fine with new tires/HDs,
regardless how much better newer machines with more evolved tires/HDs (might)
work.
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