Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!autodesk.com!autodesk.com!apple.com!olivea!charnel!gchance From: gchance@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dr. Demento) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: NEC CDR-25 + Ftr Dmn SCSI? Date: 26 Apr 1994 22:31:26 GMT Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2pk4nuINNhnd@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pathogen.ecst.csuchico.edu In article , Carlos Francisco Gomez wrote: >Hello - > >I have already bought a Future Domain 8-bit SCSI card >(already have a sound blaster) and it has Corel SCSI >software. It has an external "25 pin", parallel style >SCSI port. > >I can get a NEC CDR 25 external CDROM for $99.00. > >My question is : > >1 - Is $99.00 a good buy? From the looks of it, you being on netcom and all, you must be talking about the $99 from Corporate Systems Center in Sunnyvale...I bought mine about a week and a half ago. It's a *very* good buy. >2 - Will I have to disable parity on the NEC while > using the Future Domain SCSI card? I have seen this > requirement with other SCSI cards. I had read that you had to disable parity on the controller itself...but my friend has a SCSI-II controller, and Corel SCSI, and it works fine. Speaking of which, avoid Corel SCSI like the plague...the book is really, really bad. In fact, we called Corel and they said that the guy who wrote the manual is "no longer with the company." >3 - What is the throughput? 300 ms? 250 ms? Try 650ms. It's 150k/sec, though. >4 - For $13.30 I can purchase a "CD Blitz Cache". Is > this worth the money? I can't comment on this. :) > >...cfg... >04/25/94 -- * "You slammed my face down on the Barbecue Grill, now \This statement is for* * my scars are all healing, but my heart never will." \filler only. Please* * -- 'Weird Al' Yankovic\disregard it. Over.* *******************************************************************************