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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: SLS is awesome and getting larger
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.014350.21903@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <1992Aug26.125143.17176@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:43:50 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Aug26.125143.17176@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> fh8n@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Frank Houston) writes:
- >I have just finished installing the SLS distribution of linux
- >over the weekend. Congratulation to linus and the authors
- >of sls. You guys give hackers a good name. The points is
- >SLS is now 15 disk and growing to morw than 20. Time to
- >go CDROM. On that subject DAK sells a CDROM with controller
- >for $199. I alspo received a compuadd catalog on Aug 20
- >that has a Cdrom and card for $169. So the price isn't
- >as steep. I know that there is a SCSI cdrom driver in development
- >, but they seem a lot more expensive.
-
- Well, the DAK price is nice, but you better order fast, since DAK
- recently (a couple of months ago?) filed for bankruptcy. :)
-
- > $150 for the Adaptec board supported.
-
- Actually, Linux also supports several other SCSI controllers, the
- ST01/2 (Seagate) being among them, and those are s'posed to be dirt
- cheap.
-
- >How about the linus community agree upon one of the minimaly
- >priced cdrom unix about and create drivers it. This would
- >create a defacto common linux cdrom drive.
-
- Go for it. :) I'm sure that once someone decides they need it
- enough, they'll write one - until then, why bother? I don't know many
- people who would go out and buy some hardware just so they can write
- the drivers for it.
-
- This is pure speculation, but I suspect it may also be harder to get
- the information needed to write drivers for the proprietary (non-SCSI)
- systems.
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
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