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From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org>
To: Darryl Hoar <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:26:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> Greetings,
> I need to back up larger amounts of data.  More than a CD-R could
> handle.  I don't want to do tape as the drives are expensive.  
> 
> What is a good DVD writer drive to use with FreeBSD for the 
> purpose of backing up data ?  I am building a box so I would
> use a new version of FreeBSD.

Use 5.x and get the Sony DRU500A (I think that's it; the internal IDE one with
all the bells and whistles). Works perfectly for me.

-- Josh

> 
> thanks,
> Darryl
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