From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 27 0: 7:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C421837B422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA30714; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:07:30 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <200009270707.TAA30714@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: 1mazda1 <1mazda1@phoenixdsl.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:07:30 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: CD writers - recommendations Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <39D2451F.C4C2DA82@phoenixdsl.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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