From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 23 15: 4: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ancmail1.state.ak.us (ancmail1.state.ak.us [146.63.92.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE70137B4CF for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dnr.state.ak.us ([146.63.110.47]) by ancmail1.state.ak.us (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2WLAQ00.EI0; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:04:02 -0800 Message-ID: <39F4B611.4BF1F600@dnr.state.ak.us> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:05:05 -0800 From: Brian Raynes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Guttocks , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI? References: <20001023215316.32923.qmail@web10306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Graham Guttocks wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm trying to decide whether the CD-RW drive I buy for my FreeBSD system > should be SCSI or EIDE. The Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32 CD-RW comes in > both varieties, with the SCSI costing about $100USD more. > > Are there any discernible benefits to SCSI CD-RW drives? Any reasons why > I shouldn't get the EIDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive? If you have a SCSI hard drive, then writing from the HD to the CD-RW is faster. It's my understanding, as I don't have SCSI anything, that the SCSI controller allows for a direct write from one SCSI device to another without the main CPU getting involved. This was not the case with EIDE, the last I knew. There have been a lot of improvements to EIDE drives to improve speed and so I do not know if this advantage is still significant. > > Regards, > Graham > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs > - Join a club or build your own! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message