Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 11:22:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951112111715.575A-100000@user47.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <16610.816203433@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I also agree with Jake - if there's an ISP using IDE CDROM drives out
> ^^^^^
> Argh! Disks I mean, disks!
>
> Sorry, I've been fooling with the IDE CDROM install for the last
> 24 hours, so I've got IDE CDROM drives on the brain! :-)
>
> Jordan
Well, IDE CDROM's too! :-)
Here's a question: I would really like to upgrade to SCSI, but the
controller cards are so damn expensive! Are there any good VLB (I know,
I wish I had a PCI motherboard, but VLB is what I've got) SCSI-2
controllers that don't cost $200 or more?? I hear Buslogic and Adaptec
make decent VLB controllers, can anyone point me in the right direction
for a company that sells good SCSI controllers at decent prices? Thanks!
BTW, I bought one of those Iomega Zip drives a month ago, and they are
really impressive! I flat-out refused to buy the parallel port version (a
"standard", and I use the term loosely, even worse than IDE, IMO) so now I
have this awesome removable 100MB disk system, and no SCSI controller to
plug it into. So I did the next best thing and plugged it into my old
1990-vintage Amiga 500 (GVP Series II SCSI controller) and it's working
great (sure faster than the old 50MB [not 500MB!] Quantum LPS that's also
in there)! Just goes to show you how the benefits of SCSI can revitalize
any old machine...
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Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com
Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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