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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for IDE CD-ROMs? Date: 30 Aug 1994 05:06:20 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33ueoc$3cm@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <33beim$osg@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <33lv2t$701@gold.interlog.com> <1994Aug27.183715.9012@news.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <1994Aug27.183715.9012@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes: ] Well, you must not get out much. ;) I have a NEC CDR-260 double ] speed IDE cdrom in my G2K system. They've been shipping them for at ] least 4 months now and probably longer. Er... How does it, as an IDE device, handle the fact that CDROM's are bigger than 500M large when you can't have a non-CDROM IDE drive that large without taking up two drive "slots"? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.