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Re: Zip for ThinkPad's



On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Paul Khoury wrote:

> How fast, how much cache, and most importantly, SCSI or (I would guess) EIDE?  The

  5400 RPM, unknown cache [suspect ~256K] and EIDE.

> drive I would like to use is a Quantum Prodrive LPS525s, but because it
> is a SCSI-2
> device, I would need to fork out almost $200 for a decent SCSI-2 PCMCIA card
> to benefit from the 10.8ms and 512K cache.  Right now it's on an Ultra Wide
> card in my server.

  Get the New Media bus toaster from www.yesman.com for $53.  That is
based on the same chip as the Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI cards and is about as
fast as you can go on PCMCIA anyway.

> What is the setting of your parallel port (SPP, ECP, EPP)?

  EPP, which is what the case docs recommended.


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