Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:22:29 -0700 From: Summoner <summoner@uswest.net> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware Message-ID: <379D09D5.99B8B738@uswest.net> References: <199907262118.OAA79990@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:06:57 -0700 >>From: Summoner <summoner@uswest.net> > > >OEM drives don't come with cables, manufacturers assume that anyone > >with enough brains to install their own hardware always has at least > >one spare IDE cable. *glances at the boxes of ribbon cables on the > >shelves* > > Yeah, well... this pair of boxes would be the first hardware I've > purchased that uses IDE (ref. Subject:). :-) I'd go all SCSI in a heartbeat if I could afford it, but $600 for an 18GB drive is still just a little too far beyond my budget. > All the other stuff I've accumulated is SCSI. (Some of it using DB-50 > connectors, mind you, but SCSI -- or a SCSI-ESDI bridge controller.) I've got one of those on my Sun 4. One of the shoeboxes has a 300MB Fujitsu ESDI drive in it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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