#shop for cd-rom (NEC?)
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Hi Warren,
I'm afraid that you have confused me with one of the very
knowledgeable people that *I* am trying to divine information from
<bg>!
> i am looking for a cd-rom that can do all that is available today.
i hear alot about the nec 84-1. is there more than one version of
this drive and is there a difference between the 84-1 and 84? <
I have found that the competition for fast and furious seems to be
centered around the NEC, Texel and Toshiba. I don't know the
difference between the NEC 84 and 84-1, but surely the people in the
"What Should I Buy?" thread such as Samuel Feldman, Jack Chalker and
Larry Land can give you extremely good advice.
> I plan on using the pas scsi port to connect the drive, for now.
zeos has an scsi-2 on board chip, which i may change to later, it it
will imporve performance. any suggestions will be helpful. <
Actually, I plan on following your thought, more or less, in that I will
probably buy the PAS-16 for sound, joystick and initially SCSI, then move to a
standalone SCSI-2 controller. Again, an excellent discussion on SCSI-2,
especially as applicable to my EISA machine, is found in the "What Should I
Buy?" thread.
Good luck on your search – perhaps you should address your next query to "All"
to get someone more knowledgeable than me <g>.
Brian
Good old rule of thumb: only the top of each line does "everything
possible today" (which means this week). NEC, Texel, and Toshiba all
make such drives. What you want to look for without getting
technical is if they claim they are XA and Kodak compatible and if
they run at double speed (300Ks vs the 150 that's the minimum MPC
speed). Beyond that, the only thing you can buy that does more is a
changer. All 3 brands are very good; I have a NEC and a Toshiba here
and both are solid performers. Were I buying another, though, I'd buy
either the top of the line Toshiba or Texel, since both of those
manufacturers have shown a willingness to provide firmware upgrades
(i.e. new chip sets) that updated the capabilities of older machines
while NEC does not.