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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Can you recommend a SCSI and CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.014205.17077@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep8.235940.22362@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:42:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.235940.22362@pony.Ingres.COM> edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) writes:
- >In the near future I'll probably be looking into getting a CD-ROM drive
- >which I'll be hooking up through a new SCSI board. I'd like to get the
- >best combination that will work under both OS/2 and DOS. I'm not really
- >all that up on this stuff and from postings I've scanned on these topics
- >installing SCSI and CD-ROMs seems like it can be fraught with difficulties --
- >particularly depending on other devices already installed.
- >So, I'm asking the net for any brandname recommendations for a SCSI-CDROM
- >setup. Also, with all the junk I've already got stuffed in the box, will
- >I have any problems? My system is as follows:
- >486-33 Local Bus (ET4000)
- >16 Meg RAM
- >2 IDE Drives: 120 Meg (Bootmanager, C: FAT DOS Boot primary, E: HPFS, F: HPFS)
- > 200 Meg (D: FAT primary)
- >Soundblaster (uses IRQ7 - I don't have a printer)
- >MPU401 board (uses IRQ5)
- >I'm particularly concerned about having 2 IDE's with SCSI (seems like some
- >other people had problems with this), and I've got a couple of boards that
- >already use IRQ's 5 and 7.
-
- Current recommendation is an Adaptec host adapter with a Toshiba
- SCSI-2 or IBM CD-ROM drive.
-
- I see no problems with adding a CD-ROM drive (with this suggested
- hardware) to your setup.
-
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