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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
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References: <21s0p0$s6q@umd5.umd.edu> <1993Jul12.175121.3826@taylor.uucp> <BLYMN.93Jul14133142@mallee.awadi.com.au>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 06:09:45 GMT
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In article <BLYMN.93Jul14133142@mallee.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:
>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 1993 17:51:21 GMT, mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) said:
>
>Mark> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
>
>>And if someday, you wish you had SCSI, go out and buy some SCSI devices.
>>The IDE drives will still work in your computer.
>
>Mark> If you are able to configure it that way.  I was unable to get ISC to
>Mark> work that way..... maybe Linux will.
>
>I am using a mixture of SCSI and ESDI drives without a problem under
>386BSD, so I would expect that IDE would work as well.  I went to SCSI
>for my second disk specifically because I knew that I would want to
>add a cd-rom drive later and possibly another tape drive (I already
>had a QIC drive with it's own interface).

For whatever is worth, I had two ide drives and a scsi 1.2gb disk drive 
working for a while under NetBSD with no problems.  

Since, I literally upgraded all major peripherals in my system I just
simply built another system and connected them together via ethernet :-)

Enjoy,
	Amancio




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