From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 20:54:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 860C237B718 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:54:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 9157 invoked by uid 100); 31 Mar 2001 04:54:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15045.25365.959148.201394@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:54:45 -0600 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: The right way to burn CDs ? In-Reply-To: <68991195@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt types: > No, they can because the ATAPI spec has been modified over the years and > is still not exact, and all devices claiming ATAPI compliance don't > adhere to exactly the same implementation of the ATAPI standard. > > SCSI-2 is much tigher as a standard which is why you don't see these > problems as much, besides it also uncouples the host BIOS from the > peripheral, which removes another point of potential incompatability. As an aside, SCSI-1 wasn't quite so tight, or possibly wasn't followed quite as closely. Trying to move hard disks (not something as esoteric as CD burners) between systems was a hit-or-miss operation. You'd get disks that didn't spin up at all, or systems that would keep restarting the drive while trying to boot, never getting anywhere. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message