Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:05:05 -0800 From: Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us> To: Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI? Message-ID: <39F4B611.4BF1F600@dnr.state.ak.us> References: <20001023215316.32923.qmail@web10306.mail.yahoo.com>
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Graham Guttocks wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm trying to decide whether the CD-RW drive I buy for my FreeBSD system > should be SCSI or EIDE. The Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32 CD-RW comes in > both varieties, with the SCSI costing about $100USD more. > > Are there any discernible benefits to SCSI CD-RW drives? Any reasons why > I shouldn't get the EIDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive? If you have a SCSI hard drive, then writing from the HD to the CD-RW is faster. It's my understanding, as I don't have SCSI anything, that the SCSI controller allows for a direct write from one SCSI device to another without the main CPU getting involved. This was not the case with EIDE, the last I knew. There have been a lot of improvements to EIDE drives to improve speed and so I do not know if this advantage is still significant. > > Regards, > Graham > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs > - Join a club or build your own! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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