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Re: Video board, CD-ROM drive
On Wed, 27 Dec 1995, Jacques Goldberg wrote:
> 1-Has anybody used the following video board (XFree86 of course):
> PCI 1MB ARC1000 OCTEK (the chipset is ARC or ARK says the dealer) ?
yuck... what IS that? why not get the simple CL, or a medium-range ATI?
best is Matrox, of course..
> 2-Has anybody used the following IDE-ATAPI CD drive: ACER CD-743E ?
> The Hardware Howto seems to suggest that any IDE-ATAPI drive would
> work. Can somebody positively confirm that I read correctly?
from my experiance, Acer are extremly slow on seek time... how cheap can
it be? a x4.4 from Toshiba is $190, and a x6.7 is $240... Toshiba are
very standard, and are one of the best!
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