From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 16:51:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18045 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17955 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA06485; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:51:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Short cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, Andrew Short wrote: > > Because IDE CDROMs don't adhere to standards and are thus totally flakey? > > That said, ARE there IDE CDROM's that properly adhere to standards? I am > in the process of piecing together a box to run FreeBSD and while I would > rahter run SCSI, IDE is WAY too economical at this point. I would GLADLY > purchase an IDE CDROM that would actually WORK! =) It's system- and CDROM- specific. If it has to be dependable go SCSI. It's worth the money, let me tell you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message