From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 9:15:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C6237B419 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA34185; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:15:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:15:41 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Gustaf Tham Cc: Subject: Re: ATAPI or SCSI CD burner? In-Reply-To: <20020312145823.68E1.GUS@algonet.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 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. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message