From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 18 8:40:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B44D14C93 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA47644; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:40:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199908181540.IAA47644@apollo.backplane.com> To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, rb@gid.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation? References: <199908180010.RAA92534@rah.star-gate.com> <199908180047.RAA40957@apollo.backplane.com> <14266.40954.10126.5835K@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 Isn't that the drive with the enclosed DVD disk -- kinda like a permanent caddy? I've avoided the DVD-RAM drives because of that and because the standard is still going through major changes. I expect those drives to become obsolete very quickly once the technology settles down. But in a year or two when the DVD-writers come down in price I'll probably start using them. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message