Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:23:52 -0400 From: Troy Landers <tdl@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tdl@widomaker.com Subject: EIDE 8x CDROM drive & FreeBSD... Message-ID: <31C1CA58.78DF@widomaker.com>
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Hi all, I am about to purchase an IDE 8x CDROM drive. I have some concerns using it with FreeBSD, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid the additional cost of a SCSI version of the same drive and that of a SCSI controller card, at the same time I don't want to spend less money on something that is known _not_ to work. Is anyone using a IDE 8x CDROM with FreeBSD?, if so what brand? had any problems? I have seen statements such as "All non-SCSI cards are known to be extremely slow compared to SCSI drives.", does this include the EIDE controller built into most new motherboards? & is this still true? is there nothing I can do to get the performance I should expect? Also is the statement "ATAPI compatible IDE CD-ROMs (should be considered experimental)", still true? I thought I saw something about a new driver or something that integrates IDE CDROM's with the system or did I mis-understand something? Thanks for any help, -Troy- P.S. I have just subscribed to the hardware mailing list hoping that I might catch some discussions about the SMP effort. I am also getting a new Tyan Tomcat II (Dual CPU board; I'll start with only one CPU though) and I am interested in running the second CPU with FreeBSD. If there is a better list for the SMP effort please pass it along. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Troy D. Landers Email: tdl@widomaker.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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