In article <1992Aug26.125143.17176@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> fh8n@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Frank Houston) writes:
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>I have just finished installing the SLS distribution of linux 
>over the weekend. Congratulation to linus and the authors 
>of sls. You guys give hackers a good name. The points is 
>SLS is now 15 disk and growing to morw than 20. Time to 
>go CDROM. On that subject DAK sells a CDROM with controller
>for 9. I alspo received a compuadd catalog on Aug 20
>that has a Cdrom and card for 9. So the price isn't 
>as steep. I know that there is a SCSI cdrom driver in development
>, but they seem a lot more expensive. 

Well, the DAK price is nice, but you better order fast, since DAK
recently (a couple of months ago?) filed for bankruptcy.  :)

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>       0 for the Adaptec board supported.

Actually, Linux also supports several other SCSI controllers, the
ST01/2 (Seagate) being among them, and those are s'posed to be dirt
cheap.

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>How about the linus community agree upon one of the minimaly 
>priced cdrom unix about and create drivers it. This would
>create a defacto common linux cdrom drive.

Go for it.  :)  I'm sure that once someone decides they need it
enough, they'll write one - until then, why bother?  I don't know many
people who would go out and buy some hardware just so they can write
the drivers for it.

This is pure speculation, but I suspect it may also be harder to get
the information needed to write drivers for the proprietary (non-SCSI)
systems.
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                                    +      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
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