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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI -- FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 15 Nov 1994 13:27:15 +1000
Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane
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Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.au) wrote:
: cd-roms all on the one card. Yeah sure, there is EIDE which addresses
: some of the limitations of IDE (like the size limitation and lack of
: CD-ROM) but it's still a kludge coz you only can cope with 2 devices
: whereas SCSI will cope with up to 7 devices.
4 devices per EIDE card - at least on the cards that are floating
around these parts.....
Phil.
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"My baby's so vain she is almost a mirror"