From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 13:17:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763E837B417 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CLGo557777; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:16:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from paul) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:16:50 -0500 From: Paul Mather To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gus@algonet.se Subject: Re: ATAPI or SCSI CD burner? Message-ID: <20020312211650.GA29723@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-No-Archive: yes X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.5-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:05:26 +0100, Gustaf Tham wrote: => My Plextor SCSI CD burner has gone to the heaven of CD burners. => Presumably a very cool place. => => Is it these days OK to use an ATAPI burner -- save me a pile of $$? => It seems burncd does not yet do DAO, but soon will... => And cdrdao can be used with IDE drives after applying a patch... => And so on. Maybe still better off with SCSI? Right now, I think you are much better off with SCSI, because the application support is far richer. With vanilla ATAPI under -RELEASE or -STABLE you are pretty much limited to burncd. If you are used to cdrecord or cdrdao---and the flexibility they offer---burncd can seem a little "bare bones." Also, good DAE tools like cdparanoia work with SCSI library developed by the author of cdrecord. You *can* use cdrecord and cdrdao with ATAPI burners if you apply the ATAPICAM patches, but it is a pain to keep all that in synch if you're wont to rebuild your kernel more than every once in a blue moon. BTW, does anyone know if burncd supports BURN-proof? (If so, does it do it automagically, as I could find no switch to enable it listed in the man page.) Cdrecord supports BURN-proof. Cheers, Paul. e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message