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- From: ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: What is a good PC CD-ROM drive for me?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.234635.19534@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 23:46:35 GMT
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- In article <l9au1iINN1ti@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
- >I'm shopping for a CD-ROM drive for a AT-bus 386.
- >What are the good alternatives? The major objectives of interest
- >are:
- >
- >1. Linux on CD-ROM
-
- As things stand, you need a CDROM with a SCSI interface (the real cheap
- ones do not have this. The sound-blaster model does not have SCSI). The audio
- functions are not known to work because most drives implement a proprietary
- command set for the audio functions.
-
- >2. Other Unix source code CD-ROMs
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM is probably a good place to start.
-
- >3. Kodak Photo CD
- >4. USGS or CIA map databases
- >5. Some PC CD-ROMs like those produced by National Geographic, etc.
-
- These questions are best asked in the alt.cd-rom newsgroup.
- I know very little about the Photo CD stuff. If you need this capability, then
- you should find out more from someone who knows.
-
- >
- >I would prefer an external drive, because that frees me in
- >terms of hooking it up to non-PC computers.
- >
- >What do you recommend? I would prefer a low-end cheap drive, since
- >speed is not important.
-
- Keep in mind that the real cheap drives can have seek times on the
- order of 800ms. If this is acceptable to you, then go ahead.
-
- -Eric
-
- P.S. I am back from a week in Hawaii, and I am a bit jet lagged. I have
- already fallen alsleep twice with my finger holding down the 'n' key, so I hope
- that I have not missed anything critical from anyone else :-)
-