From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 16:45:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:45:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nu.binary.net (nu.binary.net [12.13.120.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24426 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:45:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yura@matrix.binary.net) Received: from matrix.binary.net (yura@matrix.binary.net [12.13.120.2]) by nu.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA15820; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:45:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from yura@localhost) by matrix.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id SAA27850; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:45:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19981007184511.A27233@binary.net> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:45:11 -0500 From: Yura Socolov To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Reply-To: yura@binary.net References: <199810072107.OAA02528@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810072107.OAA02528@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 02:07:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 02:07:48PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > Magneto-optical. In my previous job I had spent quite a lot of time > pounding these disks; mostly the 600MB 5.25" variety, but also some of The problem here would be that a cheap hard drive, which will do just fine for a network workstation, would cost a lot less than a fancy MO drive, that probably will also need a SCSI card, expensive media, etc, etc... -- yu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message