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Re: Advise on CD Drive & Sound Card



In message <431E9579B9@hagiga.jct.ac.il> you write:
|If you have ISA, go for AHA-1542CF (Note 2CF). This controller supports
|two floppies and fast SCSI-2. Of course, the normal 7 SCSI devices
|limit applies to the SCSI drives. The 1542 is somewhat sensitive to
|cable quality, but as long as you do NOT muck about with extra long
|cables, you're safe. My own AHA-1542 carries (as of a week ago) two
|hard drives, a DAT drive and two floppies. No problem apparent.

Again - note the "CF" suffix.  Apparently this is very important.

|
|If you go PCI, you are MORE limited in choice. Look in the PCI and HARDWARE
|FAQ's to see what is currently supported. AHA-2940 and 2940W are being 
|actively developed, but are not production quality yet as of kernel 1.2.0.
|
|Be careful when you buy hard-drives - Seagate in particular are complete
|and total drek. If you buy them, you swim in 'em. Micropolis are very good
|and so are IBM's (except those OEM'ed from WD).

The seagate Baracuda gives good impression from the reports on the Net
so far - but it runs VERY HOT (it runs at 7200 rpm's, twice the
usual), so I'd prefer to stay away from it.

Micropolis's smallest disk right now is 2Gb (they stopped producing
anything smaller).  So I don't know how relevant they are to you.

I'm planning to go on an HP C3323A - 1Gb for 645$ from Media-Tech,
unless I find a better burgain.

Cheers,

--Amos

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