Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:17:50 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, <AMDMCG@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me e... Message-ID: <002901c0a388$3869a020$6100000a@vladsempire.net> References: <001e01c0a23a$bbf56b80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>; "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>; <AMDMCG@aol.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:31 AM Subject: RE: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me e... > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young > >Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:56 AM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Josh Paetzel; AMDMCG@aol.com; > >freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont > >install or give me e... > > > > > > > >> >Where did a 2x CD drive come from ?? ..... sounds like someone raided a > >> >museum !!!!! > >> >> > >> > >> No, probably took it from my basement when I wasn't looking.. ;-) > > I've probably got a dozen of em. > >You mean you actually had a working one ?? ..... that was rare enough even > >when > >the things were fresh out of the original packaging let alone after ten > >years or whatever > >its been since those dinosaurs were in vogue !!!! > > > I've never seen a bad 2x cdrom. I've got a bunch of them, both scsi and proprietary (the matsushita cr-563b being the most common) and I've never had a failure. I didn't start to get bad cdroms until the $49.99 IDE ones became popular. > I dealt with those dumb things and their rotten non-standard narrow > ribbon cables that got lost all the time for a while at Central Point > Software, later Symantec, as like all software companies they were > toy-buyers, and what > hardware that the software developers bought and couldn't make work got > tossed into the IT dungheap. (Often we could get it to work with patience, > one thing I learned there was how impatient a lot of software developers > are with touchy hardware) They use a standard 40 pin IDE cable. Only the controller is different. > > Generally whenever we needed a piece of hardware we found that it was easier > to go into "the room" and extract it then to try and requisition anything. > It was those drives that got me so disgusted with proprietary interface > drives > that I swore all SCSI drive purchases that I had anything to do with from > then on would be SCSI. If you figure out how to buy a SCSI drive that isn't SCSI, let me know. I'd be interested to hear how you did it. I did get burned once by buying an NEC CDR-25 which > turned out to be SCSI-1, with the parity bit permanently switched off, but > even today I still have CD drives that I bought nearly 10 years ago that > move from older machine to older machine. > So do I. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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