Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:07:30 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: 1mazda1 <1mazda1@phoenixdsl.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD writers - recommendations Message-ID: <200009270707.TAA30714@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <39D2451F.C4C2DA82@phoenixdsl.com>
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On 27 Sep 2000, at 15:06, 1mazda1 wrote: > Q. Does anyone have a recommendation for a cd writer? > Ya any Plextor that is SCSI / look at any of the reviews... > make sure it has a good size read buffer You are not the first to recommend Plextor (people I know on IRC mentioned them to me). The other I've seen recommended is the Ricoh Internal 6/4/24 SCSI, so I'll be looking into that one too. > Q. I'm told SCSI cd-writers are better than IDE under FreeBSD. > Any SCSI device is more efficent than IDE devices because > SCSI devices run from the SCSI BUS which is not the same BUS as the CPU > thats because it has taken off the load from the CPU and therefore leaves > more processing power.. I've also been told that IDE cd writers under FreeBSD are a problem. What problem, I don't know. Anyone have any clues? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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