Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:23:16 -0700 From: Doug Wellington <doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <9607161823.AA10104@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> In-Reply-To: "Your message of Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:37:49 MST." <199607161537.IAA01488@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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Previously: > > 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 :-) Yeah, but at a fifth of the price! With 8x CD's going for just over $80, and 6x and 4x CDs less than that, it sure is hard to argue against them! I would love to get that fast Plextor SCSI CD drive, but I just can't afford it for just loading data... I loaded a 20M file from a four speed CD in about 40 seconds. (Just about the right amount of time to go get a cup of coffee!) If I did that every hour, or every day, then yes, I'd love a faster CD drive... While I'm editorializing, ;-) that's also my argument for using my IN-2000 SCSI adapter. It was cheap, and it goes as fast, or faster, than my Zip drive can, so why waste all that money on a nice Adaptec just to load a little data... And having that 25 pin adapter on the IN-2000 means that I don't have to get some fancy (expensive!) adapter to the micro 50 pin... (Speaking of that, anybody know where to get a db 25 pin to micro 50 pin SCSI cable?) >(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 :-) They'll be in a museum saying, "hmm, a PC, how quant!"... ;-) -Doug Doug Wellington doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov System and Network Administrator US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ Project Office According to proposed Federal guidelines, this message is a "non-record". Hmm, I wonder if _everything_ I say is a "non-record"...? FreeBSD and Apache - the best real tools for the virtual world! Check out www.freebsd.org and www.apache.org...
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