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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!snowdon.elsevier.co.uk!news From: Paul Richards <dpr> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 10 Jan 1996 09:57:13 GMT Organization: Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4d02hp$7ka@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> <4cfq48$9lg@news1.halcyon.com> <1996Jan4.140833.18166@wavehh.hanse.de> <4clc42$p4q@news1.halcyon.com> <MICHAELV.96Jan9224027@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: towy.elsevier.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:MICHAELV.96Jan9224027@MindBender.HeadCandy.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32620 alt.os.linux:7028 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11842 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1777 michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: >In article <4clc42$p4q@news1.halcyon.com> tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: > > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> wrote: > >>Unless you need more than one CD-ROM drive, or need to be a CD-ROM server > >>in addition to being a file server, how do you justify the extra cost for > >>a SCSI CD-ROM? > > >Easy: How can you know you will not need more than one CD drive in the > >future. > > If I need a second CD drive in the future, I'll do the same thing you > will: I'll go by one. There's no hardware requirement that all CD-ROM > drives use the same interface: one could have a couple IDE CD-ROMs, a > [...] > >I justified it quite easily. I had three main criteria: > > 1) I had to be able to easily move it between my NetBSD > machine and my Windows95/NT machine. > > 2) It had to perform well without dragging down my system. > A Windows rag in the UK just had an column by one of it's contributors on how impressed he was when he upgraded his system to use scsi controller, most significant improvement from any addition he'd made apparently. If a Windows rag notices this then it must be right :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)