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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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 01:11:06 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote:
] But for most machines, one will be enough, and that one will mostly
] just be used to install software from. For those machines, how do
] you justify spending more for the SCSI drive?
You note the lack of proce difference and you don't spend more
because you don't buy from IDE houses with only a SCSI sideline.
IDE CDROM's use a serial-to-SCSI and actually send SCSI commands
encoded over the IDE interface. That's what IDE CDROM's are.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.