allisonp@world.std.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> 
> > > It's not that far off.  I bought one at Best Buy for $99 with a rebate of
> > > $10.
> >
> > Sorry, you're talking disks, not controllers ?
> >
> 
> Your missing the point.  

Not really ;-)

> IDE disks have the controller on board and all
> you need is an INTERFACE to the Q-bus. 

I know that. (trust me ;-)) But I'm following the common usage of terms
 (which is/are wrong sometimes)

Anyway, please go in a computer shop these days, and try to get an
pci_to_ide interface.
All you get is a pci_to_ide controller ;-)

And, BTW, with all this registers, fifos, line drivers, this chips are
not so far away anymore to be called controllers ...
 
> In either case the real work is the device driver with the SCSI one being
> simpler in some ways and harder in others depending on chips used.

I agree here ;-)

cheers & nice holidays !