Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-22T21:32:31Z

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:36:31PM -0800, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> IDE on big boxes? Is that crack I smell burning? A desktop with 4 GB
> is a fun toy, but bigger than *I* need, even for development purposes.
> But I don't think EMC, Clariion (low end EMC), Shark, etc. have any
> IDE products for my 8-proc 16 GB machine... And running pre-patches in
> a production environment that might expose this would be a little
> silly as well.
>
> Probably a bad example to extrapolate large system numbers from.

At least the SGI Altix does have an IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive :)