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Re: Advise on CD Drive & Sound Card



In message <420EED6031@hagiga.jct.ac.il>, AHARON@matat.health.gov.il writes:
>	I am considering adding a CD drive and sound card to my Linux
>box. I  am thinking of an external SCSI CD drive for two reason:

I assume you DON'T have a SCSI controller. Therefore:

	DO NOT BUY VLB CONTROLLERS! DO NOT BUY VLB CONTROLLERS!

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.

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).

As for being outdated - as soon as you buy it, it's old. But then you
are in .gov :-).

>	Smile - Tomorrow Will be worse		Aharon Schkolnik
>						Aharon@Matat.Health.Gov.IL
>			-- Murphy
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