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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: SLS is awesome and getting larger
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.202941.125@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug26.125143.17176@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug26.152630.13864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:29:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.152630.13864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug26.125143.17176@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> fh8n@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Frank Houston) writes:
- >> $150 for the Adaptec board supported.
- >> $250 for the cheapest scsi cdrom.
- >
- > One other thought. You can use any SCSI board that is supported for
- >linux, not just the Adaptec. I just happen to have an Adaptec, but any one of
- >the others should work just as well.
- >
-
- And if you're looking for cheap, the Seagate ST-01's
- can be found for ~$20 mail order. Electronically,
- they seem to be SCSI. Some BIOS's have problems
- talking to certain drives. Under Linux, that isn't
- a problem, and it should be a cheap way to get a supported
- CD-ROM drive.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-