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- From: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Optical disks - advice?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.150824.6996@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:08:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- I'm thinking of buying a rewritable optical disk in the near-ish future
- and would be grateful for any advice...
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- My system is an ISA 486DX-33 with a pair of IDE drives (700M) and a 60M
- tape drive & controller (QIC? not sure). I'm running DOS and OS/2 and plan
- to run a Unix (SCO or Linux) soon. I'm drowning in floppies and am not
- convinced of the reliability of tapes (I've lost a couple after leaving
- them sitting on a shelf for a couple of months) so I thought a 3.5in 128M
- optical drive would be more reliable (and the cartridges will take
- up less space on the shelf!).
-
- Does anyone out there have any experience with these drives (they seem to
- be fairly new) -- good points, bad points, recommended manufacturers, etc.?
- I presume they're SCSI devices, so I'll need a SCSI controller -- will I
- get conflicts with the IDE controller? Are there any with a full set of
- drivers available for the OSs I'm using? Are there any that can double
- as a CD-ROM drive (or will I have to budget for one of those too, as
- OS/2 releases seem to be coming out on CD only at the moment)?
-
- All advice gratefully received. E-mail responses to je@unix.brighton.ac.uk
- and I'll summarise later if there's enough interest.
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