From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 3 21:24:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03199 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03194 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA21487; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:23:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Wes Peters cc: Mike Smith , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM drives in general In-Reply-To: <199709040152.TAA13554@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When you are running an audio CD and say tap the side of your box with "The C Programming Language, Second Edition" moving your arm about as fast as you would if you were reaching for something does you Audio CD Skip? On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Mike Smith writes: > > Try NEC, Sony, Matsushita (aka Panasonic) or Toshiba, maybe Pioneer (aka > > TEAC, aka CDC) and Phillips (if they're still in the market in your > > area). > > Oddly enough, I've had good luck with Mitsumi CD-ROMs and FreeBSD. They > are rather cheaply made, but seem to function about as well as > anything. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com >