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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:06:05 +0100
From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
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To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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Rob Landley wrote:

>The general design of something that sends a gigabit signal over all the 
>unshielded twisted pair already in people's walls was a hard problem.  But 
>once it was solved it meant that you could use cheap unshielded cables for 
>SATA too.  That lack of shielding seems to seriously freak out all the 
>old-school electrical engineers, who keep predicting doom and gloom for data 
>that goes over them:
>
>http://www.ata-atapi.com/sata.htm
>  
>
Now that was funny.  Complaining about unshielded SATA while
praising the equally unshielded PATA cables. :-/

Helge Hafting

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