From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Nov 12 11:21:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA19479 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 11:21:23 -0800 Received: from user47.lightside.com (user39.lightside.com [198.81.209.39]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19457 ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 11:21:17 -0800 Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by user47.lightside.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA00584; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 11:23:12 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 11:22:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Peter Dufault , current@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns In-Reply-To: <16610.816203433@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------