From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 24 12:21:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10167 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10161 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01449; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:18:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:18:57 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Andrew Stesin , Warner Losh , Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: IDE CDROM experiences (was: ATAPI In-Reply-To: <2853.848861123@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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