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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:15:41 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ATAPI or SCSI CD burner?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0203131101460.31162-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <20020312145823.68E1.GUS@algonet.se>

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, 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?

You would save some money by going with an ATAPI drive, but my
personal preference is still SCSI.  I recently purchased a Yamaha
CRW3200SZ (which is actually both SCSI and IDE) and even though it
cost $100 more than the IDE-only version I don't regret it.  :-)

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