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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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