From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 16 08:43:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03959 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03953 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA01488; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607161537.IAA01488@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" , dunn@harborcom.net, "'hackers@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:37:49 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:55:17 -0700 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > Personally, yes, I wouldn't touch an IDE CDROM with a stick (though > some of the new 8x drives are kinda tempting) though I still wouldn't Why? 8x on a IDE CD-ROM is 8x a "standard" (cough) IDE CD-ROM, which in my experience, is roughly equivalent to a 4x SCSI CD-ROM :-) (Maybe one day, probably far into the future, after we're all dead and gone, consumers will realize just how much PC hardware blows, and stop buying things like ... well, PCs :-) -- save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/ -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939