From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 24 19:12:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA00205 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (sdev.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00200 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.2/8.6.9) id OAA14596; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:11:44 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:11:43 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: stesin@gu.net (Andrew Stesin) Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: IDE CDROM experiences (was: ATAPI References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew Stesin on Nov 24, 1996 14:34:39 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew Stesin writes: > I sholuld also mention that SCSI CDROM drives are now simply > dissapearing from PC hardware market. So like this or not -- > you won't always get SCSI CDROM even if you sincerely want it. This is pretty much the situation in Australia too. To find a SCSI CDROM unit, you have to look and choose your supplier. Most computer stores do not carry stock at all and have to order them in specially. Considering that these stores deal mainly in putting boxes together packaged with Win95, I guess it isn't all that surprising. But that is the bulk of the market. David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn