From: adam@netcom.com (Adam J. Richter) Subject: Re: Linux 1.0 on CD-ROM? Date: 23 Feb 1993 09:12:07 GMT
In article <9343@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) writes:
>Speaking of CD Roms, anyone one know what the cheapest CD Rom drive
>is that works with Linux (including controler costs)? I frequently
>see CD Rom Drives listed at $200, but according to the FAQ only
>SCSI CD Rom Drives work. The lowest I've seen these for is $500.
>Also, do the IDE CD ROM drives work? If I endup paying $500 for
>a CD Rom drive, I would definitly prefere IDE to adding a another
>card to my computer.
Corey Minyard has a driver for the Sony CDU-31A drive,
which is not a SCSI drive. The Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X beta release
has this driver compiled in, and I tested it by doing a number of
successful installations before the release shipped.
The $500 price for regular SCSI CDROM drives is too high. I
believe that you can get a double-speed Texel dm3024 CDROM drive for
around $400 from some mail order places. I tested the release
with the dm3024 also.
Finally, there was posting in comp.os.os2.misc about somebody
selling a bunch of SCSI CDROM drives from IBM for $250 each (IBM
apparently has introduced a newer drive). I've never tried these
drives.
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