[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I've read through the CDROM howto, burt there's no mention of a problem
> like I had recently.
>
> A friend and I put together a PC for a friend of ours, from spare
> parts - *except* for the CDROM, which is a new 48x unit. It's a 1996
...snip
>
> Weird proble
On 22 Feb, Terry Collins wrote:
> I have had problems with various no-name CDroms being recognised by
> Linux over the years, particularly with older HW (486 & Pentium mobo's).
> so you are not mad. The only solution I've found is to try another
> brand.
But wouldn't that be more determin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (I didn't know that the new driver supported up to 6 IDE interfaces!
> So that'd be up to 12 discs; at say 60Gb per disc, you could easily
> have 0.7 terabytes on your desktop.)
Which means your backup devices is SCSI, so you might as well buy scsi
stuff anyway {:-)
hehehe maybe that's why M$ CDROM drivers make such great toasters!
Ignore all interrupts, they are only there to annoy the programmer!
Why on earth would hardware engineers put interrupts in...
Oh, full buffer? I never would guess that a computer could get busy...
(mumble mutter)
- Jill.
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Jill
On 22 Feb, Terry Collins wrote:
> Which means your backup devices is SCSI, so you might as well buy scsi
> stuff anyway {:-)
Good point! :-)
But aren't EIDE drives considerably cheaper than scsi, still? So, you
could make yourself a nice RAID system, which would help.
Then, just back it u
