From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 21 14:53:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11476 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:53:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11466 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from uucp4.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP id QQzznn13888; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:52:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp4.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:52:45 -0500 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Sun, 21 Jan 96 23:10:39 +0200 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.6.11/dk#3) id DAA09190; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 03:10:44 +0200 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 03:10:44 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199601210110.DAA09190@dog.farm.org> To: tony@rtd.com (Tony Jones) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4X SCSI CDROM recommendation Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hardware Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: > I'd like to spend no more than $200 - I found a Sanyo CRD-254SH 4x for $169 > but have no idea if it would be a good drive. I know that the equivalently > low priced Teac 4x scsi is supposed to suck big time. I use "PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-4XCS 1.01" (just cut'n'paste from dmesg) and I am pretty happy with it. I have paid $190 for it. > Primarily going to be using the cdrom for WC/FreeBSD installs and for > /usr/src (which I currently have on scsi hard disc). Perhaps some Windoze95 > use also. hmm, I have installed my home system from old 1-speed Mitsumi drive (mfr '92?). Not so tedious, I must say. -- Smith & Wesson: the original point-and-click interface.