Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!cyberspace.com!cyberspace.com!not-for-mail From: santa@cyberspace.com (James K. Walker) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM Drive Date: 25 Apr 1994 11:58:32 -0700 Organization: (CYBERSPACE) Public Internet 206.286.1600 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2ph3so$j4e@cyberspace.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cyberspace.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Douglas D. Lamb (AAZLAMB@uicvmc.aiss.uic.edu) wrote: : A Gateway 2000 just arrive at my place of work that contained an IDE CD-ROM : Drive! It is daisy-chained to the IDE hard drive. : Perhaps, someone has some more details on this drive, as I didn't get a : chance to look at it closely. I do know it has a powered-caddyless tray : mechanism and the config.sys driver mentions something about "Oak Technology" : being the manufacturer. : This is the first IDE CD-ROM drive I've seen -- perhaps there are more : IDE's out there to be looking out for... : - Doug : ------------------------------------------- : Douglas Lamb : University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign : dougl@uiuc.edu Doug: These are just starting to show up. A new IDE baord was recently put on the market that amoung other things can handle CD-ROM Drives. They can alos handle drive siszes up to 32 Gig, and support High Speed Serial transfer rates. They are typically known as Enhanced IDE or I prefer to call the Super IDE or SIDE for short. Hope this helps... :) Jamie Walker Santa@cyberspace.com Seallte, WA.