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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47919 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3797 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:60273 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2509 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <hastyCA554A.GKC@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) 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 Lines: 34 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 -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming