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From:	Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject:	Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX
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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:46:32 +0100
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Robert wrote:
>On all my computers you set the CMOS to automatic 
>for all HD's or CD's, except for SCSI's, where you leave 
>the setting at 'none' (ie: disabled) since all newer SCSI 
>drives have there own BIOS (?) on the drive .

IMHO that's a very stupid thing to do. Since you don't change drives often
it's rather easy to into the BIOS and let it get the correct settings for
you and then you use those. (choose "Autodetect Hardrives" or something
like it).

>  If you leave 
>the CD ROM Drive set at 'none' (ie: disabled) the computer 
>will ignore any IDE/EIDE drives installed at that location. 

Ahem, Linux ignores the BIOS.

>At present, here in California, it is hard to find an AT board

First now? It's been impossible for over a year and a half here - if not more.

> and all
>the 
>new boards are coming out with 166MHZ Bus and now moving to 
>200MHZ Bus, with UDMA66 as the slowest IDE controller speed.

IMHO:
New boards are coming out with 133MHZ Bus (Intel) and now moving to 200 and
266 MHZ Bus (AMD), with UDMA66 (Intel) and UDMA100 (AMD) as the slowest IDE
controller speed.

BTW: I've never even heard of a 166MHz bus.

> Also, 
>almost all of the new boards for the last three years have 2 EIDE   
>connectors and 1 SCSI connector (capable of connecting 16 devices). 

SCSI on the motherboard? That's very rare here. I remember seeing some
before IDE-2/EIDE (take your pick on what to call it) was common, but that
was on 486s.

>Cost is still a factor, SCSI being more expensive by a factor of 1.8/2.5x

I've always seen it as this:
SCSI cost = IDE cost + constant for all drives for a given time
But that has changed the last two-three years or so.

>However, 
>If You want to play games you should really be better off buying a new 
>Sony PS2 and playing games.

The games are harder to come by (but yes, they can be pirate copied).

>I heard a rumor that you can soon go 
>on-line with the PS2 and play games on a PS2 Game site.

IIRC this option was going to be possible for the PS as well.

BTW: There was a strip on computerfriendly lately regarding a lawsuit (or
something like it) against ps2.[I can't remember].no, it ended of course
with a lawsuit again Sony for the "correct" ps2 - "PS/2" ;-)
//Bernie

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