RE: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-14 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 5/10/2002 02:11 PM -02-30, you wrote: >I generally have my hard disks a SCSI and my CD writer on IDE0 and the >CD-ROM on IDE1. Works great. I believe that IDE0 runs via the PCI bus >at 33 MHz, and IDE1 runs via the ISA bus (8 Mhz). That was my rational >- can anyone confirm this? Never heard

Re: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-14 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 5/10/2002 10:47 AM -0400, you wrote: >The primary issue with IDE (in spite of things like ATA/100, etc) is this: > >While you can have 2 drives on a chain, the system can only access one of >those drives at a time. So, if you happen to have your CD-ROM on /dev/hdc >and your writer on /dev/hdd

Re: CD (re)writers - was Re: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread mikeyw
;Harry Putnam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 7:39 AM Subject: CD (re)writers - was Re: Pays your money and takes your chances > Hi Harry, > > On Friday 10 May 2002 7:46 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Trying to slip in some OT questions by using an unu

Re: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Mike Burger
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You do not necessarily have to have SCSI, though, if you can see your way > > clear to buying SCSI equipment (it is more expensive, but the performance > > gains, IMO, are worth it), you're better off. > >

RE: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Mike Burger
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Mike Pelley wrote: > I generally have my hard disks a SCSI and my CD writer on IDE0 and the > CD-ROM on IDE1. Works great. I believe that IDE0 runs via the PCI bus > at 33 MHz, and IDE1 runs via the ISA bus (8 Mhz). That was my rational > - can anyone confirm this? I can't

RE: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Mike Pelley
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pays your money and takes your chances Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You do not necessarily have to have SCSI, though, if you can see your way > clear to buying SCSI equipment (it is more expensive, but the performance > gains

Re: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You do not necessarily have to have SCSI, though, if you can see your way > clear to buying SCSI equipment (it is more expensive, but the performance > gains, IMO, are worth it), you're better off. > [...] > SCSI is parallel tasking. You can read/wri

Re: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Mike Burger
You do not necessarily have to have SCSI, though, if you can see your way clear to buying SCSI equipment (it is more expensive, but the performance gains, IMO, are worth it), you're better off. The primary issue with IDE (in spite of things like ATA/100, etc) is this: While you can have 2 driv

CD (re)writers - was Re: Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Harry, On Friday 10 May 2002 7:46 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > Trying to slip in some OT questions by using an unusual subject line. > > But It is actually part of the possible answer. > > I've never tinkered with cd read/write equipment. And a little > bewildered by the plethora of equipment ou

Pays your money and takes your chances

2002-05-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to slip in some OT questions by using an unusual subject line. But It is actually part of the possible answer. I've never tinkered with cd read/write equipment. And a little bewildered by the plethora of equipment out there. I want to be able to write to a writable cd. Both data and mu