Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:58:50 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, rb@gid.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation? Message-ID: <14266.40954.10126.5835K@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:47:42 -0700 (PDT)" <199908180047.RAA40957@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908180010.RAA92534@rah.star-gate.com> <199908180047.RAA40957@apollo.backplane.com>
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At Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:47:42 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote: > > One thing www.buy.com is really good for, even if you don't buy from them, > is to get pricing information on a general search. You can then use it > to do comparison shopping. > > http://www.buy.com/ > click on "comp" > Search for "rewritable" > > And there you have it. The smart-and-friendly lists for $460 (yowzer!). > The older Yahama models (SCSI) list for $325. The lowest cost one > appears to be the HP or Yamaha IDE versions for $200, too bad FreeBSD > can't use it under IDE (but personally I think SCSI is the only way to > go). Hmm. Plexor lists a SCSI one for $268 but I dunno if it works. > Hi-Val lists a SCSI one ofr $282. Again, dunno if it works. > > > -Matt For backup, I bought DVD-RAM drive for $400. 5.2GB(double side) media is around $35, you can use them as 2.3GB x 2 disks. Enabling raw-write in scsi_cd.c, you can newfs/mount DVD-RAM as UFS. Write speed is around 500KB/s, and read speed is around 1.4MB/s. -- /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP public key: finger -l simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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