Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:18:25 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: The right way to burn CDs ? Message-ID: <002001c0b9a2$02df4100$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15045.25365.959148.201394@guru.mired.org>
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Yes, SCSI-1 was bad and one of the worst was that SCSI-1 tapedrives wern't required to support disconnection - so rewinding a 150MB streamer could lock the SCSI bus for a few minutes. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer >Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:55 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: The right way to burn CDs ? > > >Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> 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. > > <mike >-- >Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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