From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 13:56:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA16714 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA16697 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from widomaker.com (root@wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA10559 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:24:01 -0700 Received: from 128.155.21.102 by widomaker.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0uUfPT-0000DEC; Fri, 14 Jun 96 16:23 EDT Message-ID: <31C1CA58.78DF@widomaker.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:23:52 -0400 From: Troy Landers X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: tdl@widomaker.com Subject: EIDE 8x CDROM drive & FreeBSD... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I am about to purchase an IDE 8x CDROM drive. I have some concerns using it with FreeBSD, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid the additional cost of a SCSI version of the same drive and that of a SCSI controller card, at the same time I don't want to spend less money on something that is known _not_ to work. Is anyone using a IDE 8x CDROM with FreeBSD?, if so what brand? had any problems? I have seen statements such as "All non-SCSI cards are known to be extremely slow compared to SCSI drives.", does this include the EIDE controller built into most new motherboards? & is this still true? is there nothing I can do to get the performance I should expect? Also is the statement "ATAPI compatible IDE CD-ROMs (should be considered experimental)", still true? I thought I saw something about a new driver or something that integrates IDE CDROM's with the system or did I mis-understand something? Thanks for any help, -Troy- P.S. I have just subscribed to the hardware mailing list hoping that I might catch some discussions about the SMP effort. I am also getting a new Tyan Tomcat II (Dual CPU board; I'll start with only one CPU though) and I am interested in running the second CPU with FreeBSD. If there is a better list for the SMP effort please pass it along. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Troy D. Landers Email: tdl@widomaker.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-