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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:37:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To:        Rob <europax@home.com>
Cc:        Brian Raynes <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us>, Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010232037200.7159-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
In-Reply-To: <39F4D828.B13E3C64@home.com>

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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Rob wrote:

> As far as I know, there are no spiffy GUI front ends to burncd. 
> Cdrecord has many.

gcombust  it's in the ports.

Vince.

> 
> 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
> > >
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