What is the best CD-RW drive for an Amiga 2000HD?

[Cyberus]

Ah the avatar...  :roflmao:

[DoomMaster]

To lorddef:

I am using your picture of me as my new avatar.     :-P

[Karlos]

To DoomMaster,

So is it the component longevity that youre after?

[Ni72ous]

to start with, i dont know anything about electronics, now that cleared up, are these chips really military grade or are they just early  versions of the custom chips? to me it seems they are more than likey early version and the black plastic "if it is plastic" body chips are new cheaper made versions.

[lorddef]

@NitrousB

You are mostlikely right, and maybe the ruggedness of the early chips qualifies them as a military grade.

[Cyberus]

To lorddef:
I am using your picture of me as my new avatar.  

I preferred the old one!

[Karlos]

DoomMaster wrote:
To lorddef:

I am using your picture of me as my new avatar.     :-P

A stokey poking out of the corner of your mouth and the effect would be complete! :-)

[iamaboringperson]

@Karlos

You're right about the higher frequency transmitting along the outer edges of the cable, however with your OFC cables there is no gold on the cable itself. The gold is only on the connector.

I buy OFC cables with gold plated connectors(the connectors are usually made of steel or aluminium), but there is alot of hype in the cable industry - I don't believe half the crap interconnect manufacturers tell us. Mostly hype.
On the other hand, I have been able to tell the difference in audio quality between different cables.
:-)

[Karlos]

iamaboringperson wrote:
You're right about the higher frequency transmitting along the outer edges of the cable, however with your OFC cables there is no gold on the cable itself. The gold is only on the connector.

Er yeah, I know that :-) The contacts are only plated gold because they cant operate in an oxygen free environment, unlike the copper conductor inside the cable.

Being corrosion resistant, the jacks dont degrade the signal's high frequencies. There'd be bugger all point in excluding the oxygen from the copper conductor only to have poorly conducting oxides all over the surface of the jacks...

[iamaboringperson]

@all

(I do have a better reference in a book somewhere)
These IC gradings are for temperature tolorance.
They have nothing to do with how long they will last, except under extreem circumstances.
IC's with plastic housing will last just as long as those with ceramic housing.
I'm still trying to find more decent info. on the web, however the following link might be of assistance for now:
http://www.acq.osd.mil/es/dut/ic/sect2.htm

(notice the top level domain)

[Karlos]

@Ima

Bah! So no EMP resistant Denise then? Bummer.

[iamaboringperson]

Here's another link. I think you're ment to guess what the letters on the left side of the table stand for (under "Temperature Ranges").

[B00tDisk]

Cyberus wrote:
I think a good solution would be the AdSCSI controller from ICD, www.icd.com

It is relatively cheap, probably good speeds, and can be ordered new from them

ICD scares me.  Have you seen the price of their stuff?  Someone needs to email them and let 'em know that:

1: Commodore is dead.
2: It's not 1990.
3: Amiga models beyond the 2000 and 500 have been released.

Phew!

(Still, if for some reason someone simply must tart up that old A500, at least there's a company still making (?) stuff to do it with  :lol: