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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!blackbush.xlink.net!news.ppp.net!sep.hamburg.com!hmo From: hmo@sep.hamburg.com (Helge Oldach) Subject: Suggestions for cheap but decent CD-ROM solution? Message-ID: <ED2F0s.19n@sep.hamburg.com> Keywords: CD-ROM IDE SCSI Sender: hmo@sep.hamburg.com (Helge Oldach) Organization: Somebody Else's Problem Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:50:51 GMT X-Active: Trust me, Microsoft knows what I'm doing Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44187 I'd like to revive a 486 with one on-board IDE and no SCSI with FreeBSD (of course). I'm looking for a CD-ROM solution. Options are to go for a SCSI board and a SCSI drive or to attach an ATAPI drive to the IDE (one disk only). Which is the best path, given that no SCSI is present currently and top performance isn't required? Any suggestions for a cheap SCSI board and perhaps also drive choice? How stable is the 2.2.2 ATAPI support? (Said to be considered "alpha" in the docs.) Will it work without slowing down the hard disk drive? Or do I need a second IDE adaptor? TIA, Helge