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- From: lithgow@usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: SCSI Card Capabilities
- Message-ID: <9209080701.AA28727@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 06:39:22 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- (Once again this is posted to comp.sys.acorn, when it should be posted
- to comp.sys.acorn.tech -- does anyone know of a mail gateway for the
- new groups?)
-
- Well, I have another question. Hopefully the answers to this will be
- useful to others, also.
-
- Having decided to buy an SCSI card, I would like to leave my expansion
- options open. Especially, I would like to be able to use the tapefs on
- Newcastle (I can borrow a tape-drive from work every month or so for
- back-ups), and I would also like to buy a CD-ROM sometime in the
- future.
-
- I know that if I buy the Acorn SCSI card, I will be able to do these
- things. But I understand that the Acorn card is still rather
- expensive.
-
- My question is: are any of the other cards really compatible with the
- Acorn card, but cheaper (and not slower)?
-
- BTW, I'm not interested in getting RiscIX in the future, so that isn't
- an issue. (In case you couldn't have guessed. ;->)
-
- (Oh, a side question: is RISC OS 3.10, a SCSI card, and a
- stock-standard CD-ROM drive all you need to use CD-ROMs, or is there
- extra software required?)
-
- Thanks again to those people who answered my previous questions
- (including those from *Acorn*).
-
- If any of the other people who also wanted answers to those questions
- didn't get enough, just mail me and I'll send them on to you.
-
- -Malcolm. lithgow@usl.com These are merely my questions and opinions.
-