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From: duplain@btcs.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM support in FreeBSD/NetBSD ?
Message-ID: <1994Jul18.131229.21967@btcs.bt.co.uk>
Organization: Syntegra, Brighton, UK
References: <1994Jul13.124843.28047@btcs.bt.co.uk> <Csw6wz.n4H@ucdavis.edu> <MARK.94Jul14133528@jupiter.aggregate.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 13:12:29 GMT
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In article <MARK.94Jul14133528@jupiter.aggregate.com>,
Mark P. Gooderum, Software Engineer <mark@jupiter.aggregate.com> wrote:
>: 	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.

	Yes, but this all takes money; if I could get away with it I'd buy
	myself a 16-bit sound card, and a VLB SCSI-2 card and disks. But as
	I already have a 8-bit SB and 2 x IDE disks I have to continue down
	my second-rate peripheral path :-)

-- 
Andy Duplain, Syntegra, Brighton, UK.                     duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
#define	DISCLAIMER "My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's"