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From: mark@jupiter.aggregate.com (Mark P. Gooderum, Software Engineer)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM support in FreeBSD/NetBSD ?
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: 	2 IDE drives so I will likely just buy a cheap CD-ROM drive with
: 	it's own proprietary 8-bit SCSI interface).

Ehhh...there are some nice sound boards with real SCSI interfaces.  Then
you can just by a SCSI CD-ROM from any number of sources.

The Future Domain boards have a SCSI-1 chip that may be supported, I don't
remember.  The "SoundBlaster SCSI-2" has an AIC-6360 chip with real 
SCSI-2 support.  I use this and get slightly better performance on this
controller than my (ISA non-buffered) IDE controller.

-Mark