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Date:      Mon, 01 Sep 1997 13:53:09 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
To:        "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CDROM drives in general 
Message-ID:  <199709012053.NAA05860@MindBender.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 01 Sep 97 12:48:11 -0700. <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901124302.1054A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> 

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>Is it just me, or is this normal?
>I noticed after upgrading a few months ago from an old 2X Panasonic
>interface CDROM drive to an 8X ATAPI that audio cds skip alot easier when
>the table my machine is sitting on it subjected to even the smallest shock
[...]

Cheaper (read: less well-designed) hardware?

Much of the "cheap" mega-X CD-ROM drives these days are pretty much
disposable crap.  You usually do better by getting SCSI, or at least
getting a bit more expensive name-brand stuff.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
      Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
             Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.

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