Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:18:57 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IDE CDROM experiences (was: ATAPI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961124151137.1384A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <2853.848861123@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. > > Uh.. Maybe in Russia, but around here they're just as plentiful as > ever! :-) In fact, they've been dropping in price significantly and > it's now possible buy an 8X SCSI CDROM drive (from NEC) for less than > $200. I also just purchased a 12X SCSI drive in Las Vegas for $349, > and I would expect it to be somewhat cheaper in the San Francisco > Bay Area. Performance is very good. Wow. It almost makes moving to America worth while... Well, maybe not ;-) Although you can _get_ SCSI CDROMs here in southern Ontario (Canada), they're still way up there in prices -- almost 2X the price of an equivalent speed IDE unit :-( Hopefully they'll start to become more popular or something and prices will drop. Overall, I find PC prices here in Canada equivalent to the US prices, but when it comes to SCSI, the Can. prices seem quite high -- especially CDROMs for some stupid reason.. -Mark > > Jordan > --------------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | RingZero Comp. vinyl.quickweb.com/mark | --------------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch
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