Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:16:50 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gus@algonet.se Subject: Re: ATAPI or SCSI CD burner? Message-ID: <20020312211650.GA29723@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <bulk.11442.20020312084242@hub.freebsd.org> References: <bulk.11442.20020312084242@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:05:26 +0100, Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se> wrote:
=> My Plextor SCSI CD burner has gone to the heaven of CD burners.
=> Presumably a very cool place.
=>
=> Is it these days OK to use an ATAPI burner -- save me a pile of $$?
=> It seems burncd does not yet do DAO, but soon will...
=> And cdrdao can be used with IDE drives after applying a patch...
=> And so on. Maybe still better off with SCSI?
Right now, I think you are much better off with SCSI, because the
application support is far richer. With vanilla ATAPI under -RELEASE or
-STABLE you are pretty much limited to burncd. If you are used to
cdrecord or cdrdao---and the flexibility they offer---burncd can seem
a little "bare bones." Also, good DAE tools like cdparanoia work with
SCSI library developed by the author of cdrecord.
You *can* use cdrecord and cdrdao with ATAPI burners if you apply the
ATAPICAM patches, but it is a pain to keep all that in synch if you're
wont to rebuild your kernel more than every once in a blue moon.
BTW, does anyone know if burncd supports BURN-proof? (If so, does it
do it automagically, as I could find no switch to enable it listed in
the man page.) Cdrecord supports BURN-proof.
Cheers,
Paul.
e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
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