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- From: Andy@lando.demon.co.uk (Andrew Oland)
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- Subject: Re: CD-Rom Drives.
- Date: 08 Apr 96 17:36:28 +0000
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- CA> A question. In what ways is SCSI better than IDE? I'm looking to
- CA> finally get a CD-Rom drive y'see, and I'm stuck. I've got a Viper-1
- CA> board in my A1200, and I could get a SCSI module for that. But at
- CA> 80UKP it's a tad expensive. Add to that the cheapest drive I've seen
- CA> (120ukp) and that's 200 quid's worth of hardware. But with IDE, I can
- CA> get a drive (Mitsumi FX-400 Quad) and some software (AsimCDFS 3) for
- CA> under 100ukp. Is this the bagain it seems to be? I've checked out the
- CA> drive, it's Atapi compliant and the software will run it.
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- Well bottom line answer this;
- 1. IDE is cheap but relatively slow
- 2. SCSI is fast but expensive.
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- CA> And what's the maximum length for an IDE cable? Mines getting on for
- CA> 30cm at present, and I'll need a longer one if I get a IDE. Prolly
- CA> about 5-10cm longer.
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- Sorry m8, dunno. ;)
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- Cya...
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