From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 26 18:22:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F0641518B for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:22:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 4067 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 1999 01:22:29 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 4052 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jul 1999 01:22:29 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 27 Jul 1999 01:22:29 -0000 Message-ID: <379D09D5.99B8B738@uswest.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:22:29 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware References: <199907262118.OAA79990@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:06:57 -0700 >>From: Summoner > > >OEM drives don't come with cables, manufacturers assume that anyone > >with enough brains to install their own hardware always has at least > >one spare IDE cable. *glances at the boxes of ribbon cables on the > >shelves* > > Yeah, well... this pair of boxes would be the first hardware I've > purchased that uses IDE (ref. Subject:). :-) I'd go all SCSI in a heartbeat if I could afford it, but $600 for an 18GB drive is still just a little too far beyond my budget. > All the other stuff I've accumulated is SCSI. (Some of it using DB-50 > connectors, mind you, but SCSI -- or a SCSI-ESDI bridge controller.) I've got one of those on my Sun 4. One of the shoeboxes has a 300MB Fujitsu ESDI drive in it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message