From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 27 7:22:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from onizuka.vmunix.org (onizuka.vmunix.org [194.221.152.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E4637B422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (1457 bytes) by onizuka.vmunix.org via sendmail with stdio (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:22:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: From: torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) Subject: Re: CD writers - recommendations In-Reply-To: <200009270707.TAA30714@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> "from Dan Langille at Sep 27, 2000 07:07:30 pm" To: dan@langille.org Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:22:49 +0200 (CEST) Cc: 1mazda1 <1mazda1@phoenixdsl.com>, chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille wrote: > > Q. Does anyone have a recommendation for a cd writer? > > Ya any Plextor that is SCSI / look at any of the reviews... > > make sure it has a good size read buffer > > You are not the first to recommend Plextor (people I know on IRC > mentioned them to me). The other I've seen recommended is the Ricoh > Internal 6/4/24 SCSI, so I'll be looking into that one too. I have to recommend Plextor too. First, I've got two of them (PX-412C and a PX-W8220T) and never had a problem with them. Same for my Plextor CD-ROM drives (three PX-32CS, two PX-83C and one PX-63C). Another good reason to buy a Plextor CD-R/CD-RW is that there is a freebsd tool to update the firmware from the author of cdrecord. That's IMHO a big plus. Oh, and I saw that cdrecord 1.9 clains to support BURN proof[1], so buying a newer Plextor drive probably is a good idea. [1] http://www.plextor.be/English/technical/burnproof.html -tb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message