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To: Tony Viola who wrote (13392)	7/1/1998 6:48:00 PM
From: Grand Poobah	Respond to of 25814

Tony, You are correct that the CRUS chip goes on the hard drive. They have integrated all the hard drive controller chips into one. LSI appears to offer some SCSI controller chips on their website, and from what I can gather Symbios is also in that market. So it is my impression that they do make hard disk controller chips. But my knowledge of LSI or Symbios offerings in this area is pretty vague. However, I do know that the CRUS chips target the IDE drives and not SCSI and would therefore not be a competitor of LSI in this area. They have left SCSI to Adaptec. G.P.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (13392)	7/2/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: DavidG	Respond to of 25814

Tony, Thanks for your comments on the HDD chip comparison. On the surface it still appears like there is some competition by CRUS at the low end(IDE HDD). I do understand that LSI is making some chips for use on the HDD that is also being done by CRUS... and CRUS is now taking multiple chips in an IDE HDD and replacing most of them with a single chip. I guess our biggest concern should be if CRUS's design puts them in the high end design which directly competes with Symbios SCSI interfaces instead of LSI's single chips...since that is where the large revenue stream is for the "NEW LSI". Thanks, DavidG