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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!)
To: sos@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:56:45 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199611231906.UAA07327@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from "sos@freebsd.org" at Nov 23, 96 08:06:45 pm
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As sos@freebsd.org wrote...
> In reply to Wilko Bulte who wrote:
> > 
> > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote...
> > > 
> > > check for $500 or so for the purpose of buying as many IDE CDROM
> > > drivers as he can for the money.  That probably won't be more
> > > than 3 or 4, so several things would still be very helpful:

> > I suggest Soren sends to -hackers an overview of what he bought. I
> > can probably buy some more for very little $ (the company I work
> > for (DEC), every now and then sells drives that come from dismantled
> > machines but are still functional. The prices hover around Dfl 10-20
> > which means $ 8 - 15 each). I suppose these drives are suitable enough
> > to get 'farm' of drives for testing.
> 
> Will do..

This may be vain hope but: is there a 'wishlist'/overview of notorious
drives? In other words: should I look for specific models/manufacturers
when I get the chance?

Wilko
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