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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!bt!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!btcs.bt.co.uk!duplain 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 Lines: 21 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"