Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:30:32 -0700 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us> Cc: Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI? Message-ID: <39F4D828.B13E3C64@home.com> References: <20001023215316.32923.qmail@web10306.mail.yahoo.com> <39F4B611.4BF1F600@dnr.state.ak.us>
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As far as I know, there are no spiffy GUI front ends to burncd. Cdrecord has many. Rob. Brian Raynes wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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