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Re: Advise on CD Drive & Sound Card
In message <4AA94E396E@hagiga.jct.ac.il>, "Harvey J. Stein" writes:
>"Marc A. Volovic" writes:
>
> > DO NOT BUY VLB CONTROLLERS! DO NOT BUY VLB CONTROLLERS!
>
>Could you supply a reason for this? I have a VLB SCSI (an ULTRASTOR)
>& it works fine...
Well, VLB controllers are bad for two reasons:
1. They are NOT transportable to new systems (since the VLB
is already a dead standard).
2. Some, few admitedly, motherboards cause problems with
VLB, especially full 50MHz motherboards (like my own).
---MAV
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