From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 21:18:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37CE37B71C for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2V5IPk61397; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:18:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Subject: RE: The right way to burn CDs ? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:18:25 -0800 Message-ID: <002001c0b9a2$02df4100$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <15045.25365.959148.201394@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, SCSI-1 was bad and one of the worst was that SCSI-1 tapedrives wern't required to support disconnection - so rewinding a 150MB streamer could lock the SCSI bus for a few minutes. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer >Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:55 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: The right way to burn CDs ? > > >Ted Mittelstaedt types: >> No, they can because the ATAPI spec has been modified over the years and >> is still not exact, and all devices claiming ATAPI compliance don't >> adhere to exactly the same implementation of the ATAPI standard. >> >> SCSI-2 is much tigher as a standard which is why you don't see these >> problems as much, besides it also uncouples the host BIOS from the >> peripheral, which removes another point of potential incompatability. > >As an aside, SCSI-1 wasn't quite so tight, or possibly wasn't followed >quite as closely. Trying to move hard disks (not something as >esoteric as CD burners) between systems was a hit-or-miss >operation. You'd get disks that didn't spin up at all, or systems that >would keep restarting the drive while trying to boot, never getting >anywhere. > > -- >Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message