X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <032a01c09dd5$76445b00$34822a40@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 16 DOT 19910215184745 DOT 2ac78bfe AT tellus DOT swip DOT net> Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:03:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernie" To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:46 PM Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX > I agree when used for CD-R, otherwise you'll get way much more space for > less money. True in most cases. Over the years I have seen prices very close on many SCSI and IDE drives with similar capacity. IDE is slower. However, there is a real advantage to having a SCSI intelligent controller and the number of drives you can have. I would have run out IDE drives a long time ago, or would have to spend a lot of money on an expensive IDE controller for more than 4 drives. > > them. However you mention ZIP-drives and I must say that I've > had experience with them (but only on LPT ports), and iomega > really has problems making drivers so I would guess that is the > problem. Actually, for a long time after they came out you could only get them as LPT or SCSI. There were no IDE ZIP drives for a long time. I never have had any experience with LPT ZIP drives, but the Ditto LPT tape drives seem to work just fine with DOS and NT. I just recently got one of these, so I have not had a lot of experience with it yet. I don't have a printer connected either at this time but did see some notes about using it with certain printers. > I've never had any problems with getting two HDs to work > together on the same I/O > cable. I've never done anything more > than check which drive is slave and which is the master > (specified on the drives). Most people do not have a problem, but I have seen many problems with them. Sometimes, for example, a person has gotten a second drive and wanted to use it as the master and may not be able to if it was a different brand. In the past if you connected a slow drive with a faster drive, then the maximum transfer rate for both drives would the slower rate. I don't know if this has ever been fixed and if it has, at what point it was fixed. Basically all the so-called IDE controller is, is a buffer between the drive and the motherboard bus. All the electronics is in the drive itself. There have been something like six different standards for IDE and they do not seem to be 100% backward compatible. > I've actually never checked up EIDE (or IDE-2 if you prefer) > but the way I've got it explained to me it's just a very cheap and > easy way to add another IDE channel. There is quite a bit more to it. EIDE has busmastering capability, which IDE does not. I don't believe that IDE drives could do block transfers. > I really hope you mean CD-R here. Otherwise the question is - > "How was the last ten years in [insert remote place without > communications with the outside world]?" ;-) Yes and CD-R/W. > >They are slow to begin with. I believe they only have 1mbs > >maximum burn rate anyway. > > Ah, you were refering to CD-R :) > 1Mbps = 128K ~ 0.85X > Hmm... so how was that distant remote place the last five years? ;-) Until recently with some of the newer drives, the write speed has been slow. I am not talking about five years ago. I was thinking of buying a R/W drive about a years ago, then saw the DVD RAM drives and compared speeds. Since the DVDs were as fast for write speed, I decided to wait and buy a DVD RAM drive when the prices drop and the bugs have been worked out and it will be a SCSI drive. (I don't think they even have those in IDE yet.) > Let me give you an example, the Yamaha CRW 2100 (there are IDE, SCSI and > firewire drives) has the following technical data: > Reading: 40X > Writing: 16X > ReWritables: 10X This is a very recent drive. My main point is why should some have to upgrade everything when something new comes along. I do not have to do this with SCSI. I can mix the old technology stuff with the newer stuff. > I can't wait until I get my Duron 750 instead of this old and slow K6-2 400 You did not read what I wrote very well. I said a K6-III+ 450Mhz. If you wish to do some research on it, you'll find that it is comparable in speed to the Duron! The reason I chose this, is because I don't want to invest in a new ATX case and power supply. I also get 4 ISA slots if I need them. My 56K modem is ISA as is my Ethernet card and my Central Point Deluxe Option board. Pat _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com